Evil Quotes - Page 159

We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors a reach, into countries and societies, for both good and evil, that we have never seen before. So it isn't a matter of just state versus state challenges or conflict. The bigger problem is nonstate actors.

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.

From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric

And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.