Evil Quotes - Page 150

André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them.

And after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham's wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God

Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

Evil, be thou my good.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures the body in so many ways and so universally as does tobacco. Some drugs offer a small degree of compensation for the evil effects which they produce; but tobacco has not a single redeeming feature and gives nothing in return.

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore, "For God's sake," others to assist. [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen, Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]

Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous