Evil Quotes - Page 141

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more to do with them.

I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.

Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it’s always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil. (Alexion)

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.

The world of comic book collecting is not a pretty place. For a bunch of guys who like good-over-evil stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass, but never or rarely surprised or upset when it does.

Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?

It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.