Evil Quotes - Page 161

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"

Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

To call someone anti-American, indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie, you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good, you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.

Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents.

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

Evils draw men together.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.