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Quotes About Evil

In the air the Pentagon would then, went the presumption, turn orange and vibrate until all evil emissions had fled this levitation. At that point the war in Vietnam would end.
~ Norman Mailer
The first key, put in a sentence, has been this: that our "evils" are never the happenings in themselves, but the effect we allow them to have on us. No matter whether objectively an experience is apparently good or evil, subjectively, to the one who fears and doubts, all is evil; to the one who trusts, all is good.
~ Unknown
So many evils by Satan's prince will be committed that almost the entire world will find itself undone and desolated. Before these events, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!" and sometime later will vanish
~ Nostradamus
De la "eu sunt" porne?te drumul r?ului în jos ?i cel al binelui în sus.
~ Novalis
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.
~ Octave Mirbeau
God is neither good nor evil, neither loving nor hating. God is Power. God is Change. We must find the rest of what we need within ourselves, in one another, in our Destiny.
~ Octavia E. Butler
So much agony caused, so much evil done in God's name.
~ Octavia E. Butler
To tell the truth, I like the concept of evil people who eliminated each other, in a chain.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Ibland sätter man grimma på skönheten i det ondas intresse, då reduceras den till fägring för ögat, till båtnad för folket.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
To tell the truth, I liked the concept of evil people who eliminate each other, in a chain.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Every place has two characters— every place is double. What is sublime is also fallen. What is clement is at the same time base. In the deepest darkness lies the spark of the most powerful light, and vice versa: where omnipresent clarity reigns, a pit of darkness lurks inside the seed of light.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Winds blew, evil winds, winds that pissed on the citizens, piss disguised as rain.
~ Unknown
Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
~ Orson Scott Card
It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
~ Orson Scott Card
Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
~ Unknown
When we learn the wrong lessons of history, evil is reinforced rather than restrained- particularly when we use the injuries of the past to serve the interests of the future and ignore the injustices of the present.
~ Os Guinness
Either we serve the unconditional / Or some Hitlerian monster will supply / An iron convention to do evil by.
~ Os Guinness
What is the difference between God disguising himself and deceiving us? That is where the principle of suspended judgment operates. Face to face with mystery, and especially the mystery of evil, the faith that understands why it has come to trust must trust where it has not come to understand. Faith does not know why in terms of the immediate, but it knows why it trusts God who knows why in terms of the ultimate.
~ Os Guinness
Outrage is appropriate in response to genuine wrong, tears in response to grief, shock in response to unexpected disaster. We mustn't force ourselves to thank God for these things or we will be harder on ourselves and softer on evil than God is. It is not that even Christians need not give thanks for these things, but that Christians especially should not give thanks for them. We should always be as human as God made us.
~ Os Guinness
En verdad que entre la Inocencia y el Mal no hay mayor separación que el grosor de una hoja de papel.
~ Osamu Dazai
O quizá lo que llamamos el Mal sea, en su origen, la Estupidez.
~ Osamu Dazai
Valuing physical sensations above moral considerations is evidence of either mental deficiency or demonic evil.
~ Osamu Dazai
The reason I can point out a person's evil nature is because I have that same evil nature within me
~ Osamu Dazai