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Quotes About Evil

The only appropriate war rhetoric is more rhetoric that calls our enemies spirits and people with flesh the victims of this war. Satan wants us to fight with one another, and I understand that some evil must be restrained, but our war, the war of the ones who believe in Jesus, is a war unseen. If we could muster a portion of the patriotism we feel toward our earthly nations into patriotism and bravery in concert with the kingdom of God, the enemy would take fewer casualties.
~ Donald Miller
They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.
~ Donna Tartt
Perché se è vero che il male può discendere dalle buone azioni… dove sta scritto che da quelle cattive può venire solo il male? Magari a volte – il modo sbagliato è quello giusto? Magari prendi la strada sbagliata e ti porta comunque dove volevi? O vedila in un altro modo, certe volte puoi sbagliare tutto, e alla fine viene fuori che andava bene?
~ Donna Tartt
They understood not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.
~ Donna Tartt
The devil approached the citadel of his heart by stealth, with many zigzags and parallels.
~ Unknown
We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.
~ J.A. Konrath
Satan's greatest feat is to convince us he doesn't exist. He doesn't want us to believe in him, and that makes it easier for him to spread his evil. Lucifer is the Master of Lies.
~ J.A. Konrath
He that would be safe from the acts of evil, must widely avoid the occasions.
~ J.C. Ryle
It describes him as a fallen creature, of his own nature inclined to evil, a creature needing not only a pardon, but a new heart, to make him fit for heaven. It shows him to be a corrupt being under every circumstance, when left to himself, corrupt after the loss of paradise, corrupt after the flood, corrupt when fenced in by divine laws and commandments, corrupt when the Son of God came down and visited him in the flesh, corrupt in the face of warnings, promises. miracles, judgments, mercies.
~ J.C. Ryle
Mark well what I say. Do not overlook this, though all the rest be forgotten. I do not say that the statesman must throw up his office, and the rich man forsake his property. Let no one fancy that I mean this. But I say, if a man would be saved, whatever be his rank in life, he must be prepared for tribulation. He must make up his mind to choose much which seems evil, and to give up and refuse much which seems good.
~ J.C. Ryle
All the earth [will] know how evil a thing it is to despise the Son of God.
~ J.C. Ryle
our literature has fallen upon evil days...Read the latest book. What do you find? Simple anecdotes: murder, suicide and accident stories copied right out of the newspaper, tiresome sketches and wormy tales, all written in a colourless style and containing not the faintest outlook on life nor an appreciation of the human nature.
~ Unknown
What is your name?" she murmured. He cocked an eyebrow at her and then went back to staring at his brother. "I'm the evil one, in case you haven't figured it out." "I wanted your name, not your calling." "Being a bastard's more of a compulsion, really. And it's Zsadist. I am Zsadist.
~ J.R. Ward
When I was writing the early scripts for Star Wars, I wanted to develop an essentially evil character that was frightening," says Lucas. "Darth Vader started as a kind of intergalactic bounty hunter in a space suit and evolved into a more grotesque knight as I got more into knights and the codes of everything.
~ J.W. Rinzler
The Lord is not pleased with the behavior of the wicked, but He loves those who want to do right.
~ Unknown
When the Angels arrive, the devils leave. -Egyptian Proverb
~ Jack Canfield
I have come to the conclusion that imperialism and exploitation are forms of cannibalism and, in fact, are precisely those forms of cannibalism which are most diabolical or evil.
~ Unknown
the qualities that led the top Nazis to commit and tolerate acts of horror existed in many people, living in many places.
~ Unknown
compared Voldemort to a character from Chitty
~ Jack Goldstein
As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn puts it, "If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who among us is willing to destroy a piece of their own heart?
~ Jack Kornfield
If only there were evil people out there insidiously committing evil deeds and it was only necessary to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who among us is willing to destroy a piece of their own heart?
~ Jack Kornfield
it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.
~ Jack L. Chalker
Power without the wisdom to use it properly was a very good definition of evil,
~ Jack L. Chalker
Truly evil persons do not recognize their own malevolence. They perceive themselves as generous, good-hearted, friendly sorts, who sometimes have to resort to unpleasant tactics for the general betterment of society. Even the historical monsters seem to have had no second thoughts about the damage they were causing. It was that way with Hitler and Oliver Moresby, just as it was with the Greer Avenue Strangler.
~ Jack McDevitt