Evil Quotes - Page 205

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

What millions died that Caesar might be great!

A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

It's the Devil's way now, There is no way out, You can scream and you can shout, It is too late now.

What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!

It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers

I think that you only occasionally have to play evil because everything you're doing is.

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.