Quotes About Evil

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.

When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

War was neither a means in the hands of policy nor was it an end in itself. Instead it was regarded as an evil; albeit one that was sometimes made necessary by the imperfection of the world.

She was not a person who had any right to decency or kindness, she was not a person to aspire to be. She was cruel, and she was evil in many ways. She took what she wanted from anyone, she was nasty, vindictive and she never threw me a kind word.

I know. Being evil is great. Who else besides super-villains and fortune five hundred companies can get away with not paying taxes?

But the rulers lingered in front of what they call the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which is enlightened insight,89 so that Adam might not behold its fullness90 and recognize his shameful nakedness.

The rulers wanted to fool people, since they saw that people have a kinship with what is truly good. They took the names of the good and assigned them to what is not good, to fool people with names and link the names to what is not good. So, as if they were doing people a favor, they took names from what is not good and transferred them to the good, in their own way of thinking.

In this world there is good and evil, but the good of the world is not really good and the evil of the world is not really evil. After this world there is evil that is really evil: this is called the middle. The middle is death.

Hebrews 5:14 "Deception was—and still is—crucial to Satan's strategy.

If only evil could always be visible. You could fight it then. You could do something about it. If only evil wore wild clothing and spoke in rhymes. The worst evil snuck up, like a nasty compliment.

This is a house of secrets. A House of evil. A nest for the devil if ever there was one.

Deb, justice is every man's fight. To right a terrible wrong and make evil men pay for their crimes is part of why I'm going, but there's more. It's not just about punishing the men who attacked your wagon train. These men are dangerous. They'll hurt more folks if they aren't stopped.

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Death is reflected as either the greatest Evil or it becomes the greatest Saviour. And we get to the same conclusion, namely that Salvation consists of Death!

Each soul which believes it is its own eternal evil will eternally seek its good, but the great paradox is that in order to find each other one should look for the Good and the other for the Evil because they cannot both have the same sense because they are the opposite of each other.

All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the truimph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.

In one text Casanova sees that women are responsible for Don Giovanni's evil deeds: The blame lies entirely with the female sex for bewitching his mind and enslaving his heart. Oh, seducing sex! Source of pain! Let a poor innocent person go in peace.

There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts.

Marriage, if truth be told (of this be sure), An evil is - but one we must endure

By this these Angels from an evil sprite, Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright. Licence

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

Even justice couldn't erase scars—it only delivered on a promise to the living that evil would not go unpunished.