Evil Quotes - Page 193

I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book, Mein Kampf!

Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.

No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose.

Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.

Bread sets free; but does not necessarily set free for good ends -- that dear illusion of so many generous hearts. It sets a man free to choose: it often sets free for the bad, but man has a right to that choice and to that evil, without which he is no longer a man.

Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.

Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll.

There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.

You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.