Quotes About Evil

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.

The sullen late-July days would break suddenly into shrieking tempest, in the black heart of which they would struggle with halliards that seemed to have an evil and furious life of their own; or they would be beaten to the deck by a solid weight of rain that was like the emptying of buckets. It was not rain at all, as the term is understood. The skies just turned to water and fell down.

Biographical Notes II. Evil and Redemption III. The Question of Baptism IV. Faith and Philosophy V. The Church, Mystical and Social VI. Syncretism and Catholicity

Foreword I. Biographical Notes II. Evil and Redemption III. The Question of Baptism IV. Faith and Philosophy

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

All you had to do was flip through a couple of titles in the cozy-mystery section to know that evil lurked in the cutest, quaintest corners of the universe.

but one of the sayings he was fond of was Burke's "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Jesus calls his disciples to exert a double influence by bringing light into its darkness. For it is one thing to stop the spread of evil; it is another to promote the spread of truth, beauty and goodness.

The unpleasant things in life make so much noise that we forget the silent operation of the good. Evil is aggressive, rampant, but good is quiet, undemonstrative.

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

Candle flame burning bright, With your flame on this night, Trap the evil, seal it well, in this stone, make it remain. Never to be free again.

Todo lo necesario para el triunfo del mal es que los hombres buenos no hagan nada

Luis Alfredo Garavito

Lo único necesario para el triunfo del mal es que los hombres buenos no hagan nada».

When a fool does evil work, he forgets that he is lighting a fire wherein he must burn one day.

We are each our own devil, and we make the world our hell. OSCAR WILDE

while amulets bearing the image of Medusa protect against harmful magic spells.

Because it has always been easier to believe himself capable of evil than to accept evil in others.

It has always been easier to believe himself capable of evil than to accept evil in others.

By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary attachments to her parents. Because the inner sense of badness preserves a relationship, it is not readily given up even after the abuse has stopped; rather, it becomes a stable part of the child's personality structure.

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

If there is a God, why would anyone of good sense want to deal with such a second-rate being as the Devil?

la inteligencia era un don que Él otorgaba a algunos hombres para hacer más fácil la existencia de los otros, y para combatir a quienes, siendo igualmente inteligentes, se dejaban inspirar por el Mal.