Evil Quotes - Page 97

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as 'the most anti-social and evil of all passions.'

To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

Too many Christians become bitter and angry in the conflict. If we descend into hatefulness, we have already lost the battle. We must cooperate with God in turning what was meant for evil into a greater good within us. This is why we bless those who would curse us: It is not only for their sakes but to preserve our own soul from its natural response toward hatred.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Satan has many helpers.

Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.