Evil Quotes - Page 152

Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.

If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

Sin and the devil will always find helpers in our hearts.

To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.

Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished...It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

Evil is only good perverted.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.