Quotes About Evil

The great evil, the dreadful evil, that which made war and slavery and all man's inhumanity to man lay in the cool self-justifying ruthless selfishness of quite ordinary people, such as Biranne, and himself.

Even evil bastards like Frank Begbie probabably attained an angelic innocence when they were out for the count.

evil was vulnerable, even though it wore armor weighing a thousand pounds. There would always be some spot in it which was u defended; and if the good in man were dominant it would find that exposed area and evolve a way to penetrate it. The emotion must convey the idea that his conflict with Goliath was a parable of good and evil.

All evil is good become cancerous.

The robot said, 'I have been trying, friend Julius, to understand some remarks Elijah made to me earlier. Perhaps I am beginning to, for it suddenly seems to me that the destruction of what should not be, that is, the destruction of what you people call evil, is less just and desirable than the conversion of thi sevil into what you call good.' He hesitated, then, almost as though he were surprised at his own owrds, he said, 'Go, and sin no more!

it suddenly seems to me that the destruction of what should not be, that is, the destruction of what you people call evil, is less just and desirable than the conversion of this evil into what you call good.

Consider—to give up a heathen is to lose nothing for your ancestors, whereas with the gold you get in exchange you can ornament the shrines of their holy spirits. And surely, were gold evil in itself, if such a thing could be, the evil would depart of necessity once the metal were put to such pious use.

the destruction of what should not be, that is, the destruction of what you people call evil, is less just and desirable than the conversion of this evil into what you call good.

We speak of time and mind, which do not easily yield to categories. We separate past and future and find that time is an amalgam of both. We separate good and evil and find that mind is an amalgam of both. To understand, we must grasp the whole.

It's almost not necessary for us to do good. It's only necessary for us to stop doing evil, for goodness sake.

That glimmer of light, surrounded by so many shadows, seemed to say without words: Evil has not yet taken complete dominion. A spark of hope is still left.

From his reading he knew that the masters of this world were all evil, knew nothing of justice, and always sided with the strong and the false.

Ignorance is the root of all evil.

Was die Moralisten das Böse nannten, war in Wirklichkeit die Lebensregel.

Hay mucha gente buena, Irina, pero es discreta. Los malos, en cambio, hacen mucho ruido, por eso se notan más.

Si es cierto que las casas se impregnan de la vida transcurrida entre sus paredes, en el caso de los Corrales hay maldad.

C'è molta gente buona, Irina, ma è discreta. I cattivi, invece, fanno molto rumore, per questo si notano di più.

por cada virtud hay un pecado, por cada alegría una desdicha, por cada mal un bien y así, en el eterno girar de la rueda de la vida todo se compensa a través de los siglos.

willpower. He recalled very clearly his years of fear, the torment at school, and the superhuman effort he had made to study a profession that required an evil streak completely missing in him. He

Nada de cíclopes, ni gigantes, ni hombres con cuatro brazos y cabeza de perro, pero encontraréis con seguridad seres primitivos y malvados, especialmente entre los castellanos»

I curse you, even from the distance of these many years, for keeping me so hungry that if affected my brain and subordinated me to your evil. And my apologizes to the animals for comparing you to them, because surely animals are more humane.

I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second.