Quotes About Evil

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

It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

Inom de flesta av oss är gott och ont sammanflätade så tätt som trådarna på en vävstol. Större visdom än min krävs för den domen.

Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.

Evil can do anything, for a price.

Trademaster, he said..... Who is he? Claire asked again. He is Evil. I don't know how else to describe it. He is Evil, and like all evil, he has enormous power. He tempts. He taunts. And he takes.

It's important that someone celebrate our existence, she objected amiably. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

You're worse than evil. You're inefficient .

People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large.

Pen stared around the disrupted harbor. I'll ... return. You'd better, said Seuka, with determination. Pen swung up onto the coarse rope weave and flashed a grin over his shoulder. I thought I was the evil sorcerer. Lencia shot back, Yes, but you're our evil sorcerer.

You're worse than evil. You're inefficient.

He blew out his breath and sat back. He'd almost wished for some clever evil plot, which they could then engage to out-clever. It could be surprisingly hard to counter Plain Stupid. Even by heroic measures.

the power of evil is both great and universal, is an ever present blight on life in all its manifestations, and is a matter of daily experience in the life of every man.

Pantheism merges the natural and supernatural, the finite and infinite, into one substance. It often speaks of God as the hidden ground of the phenomenal world, but does not conceive of Him as personal, and therefore as endowed with intelligence and will. It boldly declares that all is God, and thus engages in what Brightman calls "the expansion of God," so that we get "too much of God," seeing that He also includes all the evil of the world.

nationalism and religion as the unholy spouses from whose fetid conjugal bed nothing but evil can crawl forth

Once more, as in the times of Nero and Diocletian and Attila, people were whispering of the Antichrist.

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.

He realized what a fool he had been. There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse.

When evil takes up to violence, the good have no choice but to defend themselves.

people have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gambling, thieving, and robbing are covered over, folks will tolerate it longer than outright violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. Tommy

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.