Evil Quotes - Page 136

The evil genius of terrorism is that that maximizes unfamiliarity, imaginability, suffering, scale of destruction, unfairness. It's really important to understand why terrorism is so frightening because it is a psychological war and until you understand it and try to reduce the dread, until then you become like a force multiplier for the terrorists inadvertently because you'll tend to overreact to terrorist attacks because the dread factor is so high.

Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their irresistible strength. I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the inadequate securities which one finds there against tyranny.

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

The media never covers all the evil wars that's promoted.

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There is no such thing. There is a little good and a evil, a little black and a little white. Grey is not an attractive colour, but perhaps it is the one that describes the world most accurately.

I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.

Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.

Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows