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Quotes About Evil

evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms
~ James Weldon Johnson
evil is a force, and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen other forms.
~ James Weldon Johnson
O, heart! How long will you search for perfection in schools? How long will you try to perfect philosophy, geometry and all its rules? Every thought which is no remembrance of God is an evil inspiration, Be modest before God! How long these evil thoughts? (Leave them to fools!)
~ Jami
Even at the end he couldn't be anything but bad. There would be no rehabilitation for him, no redemption. Some people are just bad forever.
~ Jami Attenberg
no forces can't be too great if the evil is to be forestall.
~ Jan Guillou
a seed of evil dwells primarily in humans and their thoughts and not in visible reality.
~ Jan Guillou
Nová technika stvo?í nového, rovnoprávn?jšího ?lov?ka. Hovo?í pro to veškerý rozum. P?esto je znepokojivé, že se uprost?ed dob?e organizované moderní spole?nosti mohlo zrodit tolik primitivního zla.
~ Jan Guillou
Evil will Never win from Righteousness
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
I looked right into the face of pure evil. And the worst part is, it wasn't the enemy.
~ Jana Deleon
the universe keeps things balanced by placing those with the abilities to right wrongs in the path of evil. And no matter where you're standing, that path is going to run right through you.
~ Jana Deleon
It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.
~ Jane Goodall
This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.
~ Jane Grigson
There is no creation without destruction. There is no light without dark. That's what my nuns didn't understand. It isn't a competition. Good and evil are all part of the same thing.
~ Jane Haddam
plots for the destruction of the United States government. "A desperate turn towards evil had come," she wrote, after hearing her brother damn the United States and
~ Jane Singer
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
~ Jane Smiley
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabularies. These words are the pornography of innocence, words which adults no longer use with other adults, and so we laugh at them and consign them to the nursery, fear masking as cynicism. These are the words that were forged in the earth, air, fire, and water of human existence, and the words are: Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Courage. Honor. Truth.
~ Jane Yolen
A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.
~ Jane Yolen
The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil—it is merely a restatement of the mystery—and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force.
~ Janet Malcolm
I like to hope that there are more good people in the world than evil people' she said. 'I would like to hope that too', the old man said, 'but I don't. There are good people, however, and our duty in life is to be one of them, even though we will generally be outnumbered.
~ Janette Turner Hospital
I want to protect innocent people from sin by locking them in cages, where the evil can't get to them.
~ Jarod Kintz
I did not then suspect how passion can disrobe when it wants to be evil.
~ Jaroslav Seifert
Today's media zoom their cameras in on and dedicate endless column inches to wars, disasters, famines, scandals, tragedies, and every form of evil. Things beautiful, wholesome and good, however, are less photogenic, so the works of God and His servants are rarely noticed.
~ Jason Mandryk
I'd learned, though, that life isn't a movie. Though it's nice to believe in white-hatted heroes and black-hatted villains, people are a lot more complex than that.
~ Jason Moss
satan is a christian creation and you can keep him, thank you!
~ Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child