Quotes About Evil

I stared at her, thinking: of course, how would she know about bitterness, how would she know about the artist at all? caught in a mystery for which he must find some answer, both for himself and for his fellow men, a mystery of good and evil, of blossom and rot — the mystery of a world which learns too late, which is the mold, and which the bloom . . .

The enemy becomes not only a ready scapegoat for all ordinary dislikes and frustrations; he becomes the symbol of total evil against which the forces of good may mobilize themselves into a militant community.

One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.

The Professor shook his head. 'On the contrary, my motives are most simple, to advance science and to combat evil.

Probably one of those sinister organisations that lurked behind the mask of amusing acronym, such as BUM, for example - the Bermondsey Union of Minstrels. Or WILLY, the Whitechapel Institution for Long-Legged Yodellers. It could be any one of a hundred such evil cabals. With the notable exception of the Meritorious Union For Friendship, Decency, Individualism, Virtue and Educational Resources, who were above reproach.

This was a momentous incident, for it would set a pattern: good became identified with anything that redounded to the benefit of Muslims, and evil with anything that harmed them, without reference to any larger moral standard. Moral absolutes were swept aside in favor of the overarching principle of expediency.

Bloom relates the story of Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering learning that a painting he owned, which he'd thought was a genuine Vermeer, was in fact a forgery. At that moment, according to one observer, Goering looked "as if for the first time he [had] discovered there was evil in the world.

sólo el crimen puede afirmar mi existencia, como sólo el mal afirma la presencia del hombre sobre la tierra.

Tanpa maaf, hidup ini diperintah oleh lingkaran setan kebencian dan pembalasan dendam.

The heart of the matter is whether knowing evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is random or purposeful. If it's purposeful, we can fight it, it's hard to defeat, but we have a chance, like two boxers in the same weight class, more or less. If it's random, on the other hand, we're fucked, and we'll just have to hope that God, if He exists, has mercy on us. And that's what it all comes down to.

Then they talked about freedom and evil, about the highways of freedom where evil is like a Ferrari.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

whatever peace came from tolerating evil was short-lived. The devil always came to claim his own.

The church can no longer afford preachers who fail to take a stand when they know that the church is facilitating evil, whether it's a war based on lies, cruelty toward gays based on fear, or a distortion of the wisdom of Jesus as fantastic as the prosperity gospel.

Satan's strategy is effective because he sprinkles his poisonous brew with just enough veracity that we'll swallow it.

But the people who did this? Hell wasn't bad enough for them.

Good people can't imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will.

she wondered if justice was possible in a world full of profoundly evil and damaged human beings, in a veritable universe of damage.

We may not be perfect, but we're good, and good people can't imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will. We don't know the first thing about the kind of evil that would sacrifice a child.

Here are a few of the sources I used, and I heartily recommend them: Simon Baron-Cohen, The Science of Evil; Judith Beck, Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Louis Cozolino, The Making of a Therapist; Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths; James Fallon, The Psychopath Inside; Peter and Ginger Ross Breggin, Talking Back to Prozac; Robert D.

Store up good deeds and you will meet with good. Store up evil actions and you will meet with evil.

Why do we celebrate the monsters, the destroyers, the killers among us?

Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil.

It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another... for in it are good and evil mixed.