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Quotes About Evil

Good and evil, which were once as distinguishable as day and night, have become a blurred mist. But that mist is man-made. God is not silent. He has been silenced.
~ Julian E. Zelizer
States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. ("Absolute Evil")
~ Julian Hawthorne
Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil")
~ Julian Hawthorne
Since childhood, I had always been affected by the changes of the moon, sometimes very much so. As the light of the satellite fell on my face my mind cleared, and I knew what was to be done. ("Absolute Evil")
~ Julian Hawthorne
No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the Iliad . Good and evil do not exist.
~ Julian Jaynes
God and the devil be evermore contrarious, and they shall never dwell together in one place; and the devil hath no power in a man's soul.
~ Julian of Norwich
I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
~ Julianna Baggott
They weren't wearing their handy-dandy I'm an Evil Demon T-shirts; nevertheless, I could tell they were coming for me.
~ Julie Kenner
He was our Sauron, our Arawn, our Darkseid, our Once and Future Dictator, a personaje so outlandish, so perverse, so dreadful that not even a sci-fi writer could have made his ass up.
~ Junot Diaz
No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.
~ Justice Louis Brandeis
You'll never forget," Alden said, for the first time the pure evil of his soul showing in his eyes. His voice was bloodcurdingly gentle as he added, "And neither will I. Nothing feels as good as your own flesh and blood.
~ Justine Davis
God's Word, besides telling us something, creates something in us and in all creation. That creative and powerful Word is Christ, whose incarnation is both God's greatest revelation and God's greatest action. In Jesus, God was revealed to us. And also in Jesus, God overcame the powers of evil that had held us in subjection. God's revelation is also God's victory.
~ Justo L. González
It seems to me that the matter of the origin of evil has been solved and clarified, as well as the nature of evil actions themselves. If I am not mistaken, as has been argued, evil has its origin in the free decision of the will. But I still ask you whether the very will of which we are speaking and from which there is no doubt that sin originates, can be actually given to us by the one who made us. It would seem certain had we not been given such a will we would not have sinned, and it would
~ Justo L. González
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.
~ Juvenal
Feeling not disgusted by corruption and evil, Nor eager grasping after desire and gain, Sacrificing not wisdom for the company of fools, Nor abandoning wonder to preserve the truth, Reaching the great Dao without excessiveness, Attaining the Buddha heart without vindictiveness, Keeping not to the path of mere normal holiness, Transcendent of its own creation.
~ Jwing-Ming Yang
Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough," see murmured. "And sometimes the good just have bad days.
~ K.J. Bishop
It's sheer spitefulness to allow mortals to love because everybody dies but the love they cause to be in others doesn't die with them. Therefore love is the cause of the greatest sorrow therefore love is the greatest evil.
~ K.J. Parker
To try and rationalise all this in terms of right, wrong, good, evil, is just naive; the very worst things we do, after all, we do for love, and the very worst pain we feel comes from love. She was right about that. In my opinion, love is the greatest and most enduring enemy, because love gives rise to the memories that kill us, slowly, every day. I think a man who never encounters love might quite possibly live forever. He'd have to, because if he died, who the hell would ever remember him?
~ K.J. Parker
Take the truly dreadful, evil men of history, slaughterers of nations in the name of some twisted ideal. Of necessity you must allow them to have had Faith (which moves mountains, and without which mere works are in vain) and Hope, Loyalty, and Self-Sacrifice in the Name of the Cause, and practically every other noble and glorious characteristic you can possibly think of, except for the small matter of being in the right. . .
~ K.J. Parker
To look into the sad eyes of a hungry child or see the wasted life of a drug addict is to see only the evidence of Satan's hold on this world. All bad things, whether in Asia or America, are his handiwork.
~ K.P. Yohannan
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The evil rising up from him; pouring off him in waves. It is like the foul stench of rotting meat, but it isn't just a scent. This runs soul deep. The hairs on my arms are standing on end just being this close to him.", FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
If there is a "problem of evil", there is also a "problem of good.
~ Kallistos Ware
If there is a "problem of evil" there is also a "problem of good." Wherever we look we see not only confusion but beauty. In snowflake, leaf or insect, we discover structured patterns of a delicacy and balance that nothing manufactured by human skill can equal. We are not to sentimentalize these things, but we cannot ignore them.
~ Kallistos Ware