Evil Quotes - Page 154

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be in the first place. Everything is just matter in motion and that's that. In Mind-ism (monism) there's a different route to the same problem. There cannot be a problem of evil, even in principle, since in Mind-ism even morality is maya; illusion. In neither story, then (if we're to be consistent with their principles), can the issue of evil be raised. But in real life the problem comes up all the time. That's the difficulty.

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.

I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.

All of us here today understand this: We do not fight Islam, we fight against evil.

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

Some evils are cured by contempt.

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere.

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.