Quotes About Evil

God only acts and is in existing beings or men. Embracing the fires of experience, God was consumed by the flames, rose from their ashes, and continues to rise as Jesus Christ, or Divine Imagination. Good and evil are not conditions imposed by some benevolent deity, but states the soul must experience in order to surpass them and awaken as God Himself.

In our midst—in our very midst, Matron—are secret agents, secret societies, powers of evil known to the Yard but unsuspected by the general public. Mercifully so." He stopped short, folded his arms, and wondered how much of this the woman would swallow. Apparently the whole dose.

Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

Annie looked into his eyes with their blood-crazed whites and for the first time in her life knew how one might come to believe in the devil.

Political leadership is about achieving tangible good results that make a difference in people's lives, not offering a message of unity, respect, and honor (though that's nice, too). It's not useful to understand world affairs in the broadest possible terms, as a struggle between good and evil.

Mummy was a swine: a scum-cunted, likkered-up, brain-sick swine. She was lazy and slothful and dirty and belligerent and altogether evil. Ma was a soak - a drunk - a piss-eyed hell-bag with a taste for the homebrew.

Time. Sorrow. Evil. All such things are hammers. And only the anvil of eternity defies their blows.

Evil was amongst us, defying the Emperor's rule of order. And I served the Emperor. I always have. I always will. It is my oath. It is the thunder and the lightning.

We fear the monster's capacity for evil because we recognize it in human hearts.

No existe justificación divina para el mal. Tal y como afirmaba Darwin: "Dios debe ser débil o perverso".

Hild's dreams of birds stolen from their nests by stoats became so evil Onnen threatened to stuff her ears with tallow and threatened to find another sleeping place.

The most ominous of modern perversions is the shame of appearing naïve if we do not flirt with evil. (La más ominosa de las perversiones modernas es la vergüenza de parecer ingenuos si no coqueteamos con el mal.)

Da nicht einmal das Böse auf Erden rein ist, hat jede der drei demokratischen Wellen dem Menschen eine klarere Vorstellung gebracht: Die erste die von der Seele, die zweite die vom transzendenten Gott, die dritte die von der Geschichte: Platonismus, alexandrinische Theologie, Romantik.

By fusing Neoplatonism and Zoroastrianism, by identifying evil with matter, the Gnostic automatically divinizes the spirit.

What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret." —HERCULE POIROT

suddenly enlightenment, blinding and dazing as the light which smote Saul on the road to Damascus, burst upon her. Negation and disbelief would never cure the sickness of this world. You could never defeat evil by retreating from it. It must be faced and fought and overcome. Action, not futile sorrow, was what was needed.

It is impossible for us to accurately convey the real purpose of either Light or Darkness to such a mass of people from different homelands and with such differing viewpoints. Good is good, evil is evil. Unless we make everything black-and-white, we cannot inspire them to follow us

The Gnostics (also called Manichees) postulated that there were two gods -- the Christian God of goodness and light, and an evil anti-God of darkness. This theory proved an easy explanation of why there was evil in the world. It was rejected by Catholic Christianity in favor of the monotheistic view that there was one God who created only goodness. Evil was sin, a rebellious falling-away from God, a perversion of His goodness. This was the foundation of the evolving Christian concept of Satan.

In that thoroughly evil and violent and depraved culture, there was no hope for those children. This nation was so polluted that it as like gangrene that was taking over a person's leg, and God had to amputate the leg or the gangrene would spread and there wouldn't be anything left. In a sense, God's action was an act of mercy.

Where does the evidence that absolves low-frequency electromagnetic radiation come from? From those very same necromancers-scientists!-who conjured up the evil stuff in the first place. Once the tag "unnatural" has been firmly affixed, it is very difficult to shed. The odor of brimstone persists, and the strongest objective evidence cannot dispel it entirely.

Rather, it is the ontological shadowland of "nonhuman others" that must be vindicated. In this quasi-theology, to enter the state of domination/damnation we needn't act to evil effect, deliberately or otherwise. Our "knowledge" is sufficient to condemn us. "Modern science" itself is the source of the evil taint. To know is to be guilty of dominating what is known.