Quotes About Evil

Do you want me to say that men create gods to enforce their definitions of good and evil?

Reason arises from pride that a man may not know in this way when he has done evil.

In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness.

It leads to self-fulfilling prophecy and justifications for all manner of obscenities," Leto said. "This … rhetorical despotism, Lord?" "Yes! It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil.

The omnipresent enemy was the outside —that total absence of the things to support life that emptiness called space. It was evil and they feared it—constantly. A rod and staff might comfort in the presence of space, but what you dreamed about was washed air and a womblike enclosed cell where you could divest yourself of the damnable suit. This was the true source of comfort no matter if it came from the Devil himself.

They're Duncan's words and Duncan was speaking as a mentat. 'In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness.

And what have they created?" Taraza asked. "Only the image of evil stupidity?" "Act stupid long enough and you become stupid

They were a magnet in the void; evil and all the sad misuses of power collected around them.

This . . . rhetorical despotism, Lord?" "Yes! It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil.

Am I good or evil? Orne asked himself. He forced his attention onto the question, but it was like wading upstream in a swift river. His thoughts twisted and turned, showed a tendency to scatter. He said: "I'm ... if I'm one with all the universe, then I am God. I am creation. I am the miracle. How can that be good or evil?

It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil.

When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those consequences and not by your explanations. It is thus we should judge Muad'Dib.

They shall not escape their fate through powers of reason! Reason arises from pride that a man may not know in this way when he has done evil.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

Evil has ways of surprising one. Suddenly it turns round and says: "You have misunderstood me," and perhaps it really is so. Evil transforms itself into your own lips, lets itself be gnawed at by your teeth, and with these new lips -- no former ones fitted smoothly to your gums -- to your own amazement you utter the words of goodness.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.

Um dos meios mais eficazes de sedução do Mal é o convite à luta.

Evil is an emanation of human consciousness at certain transitional points. It is not really the physical world that is illusion, but the Evil of it, which to our eyes constitutes, admittedly, the physical world.

28. Je?li raz si? wch?on??o z?o, to ono ju? nie ??da, by mu wierzono.

Evil is sometimes like a tool in your hand, recognized or unrecognized, you are able, if you have the will to do it, to set it aside, without being opposed.

29. Ukryte myÅ›li, którymi chÅ'oniesz zÅ'o, nie sÄ… twoje, lecz zÅ'a.

The seductiveness of this world and the sign that warrants its transitoriness are one and the same. And rightly so, because only in this way can the world seduce us, and accord with the truth. The grievous thing is that after falling victim to the seduction, we forget the warranty, and so the Good has led us into Evil, the woman's smile has led us into bed with her.

What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.