Evil Quotes - Page 160

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings.

I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.

Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.

There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.

I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word "freedom" has no meaning.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.