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Quotes About Evil

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
There is one thing that evil cannot stand, and that's forgiveness.
~ Amy Hollingsworth
Just a heart as open as the blue sky. Any evil fucker
~ Amy Lane
have the Nazis killed?" she asked, voice dripping with venom. "My uncle's family, I assume," Nate told her, his blood running cold. He had
~ Amy Lane
Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?
~ Amy Neftzger
The problem of Palestine was that everyone wanted things simple: everyone was an extremist because everyone wanted things simple. It was the problem of humanity. Good and evil, as if there were only those two. The interesting thing was to seek truth and then face it.
~ Amy Wilentz
Bad mind, bad heart.
~ Anacharsis Cloots
Bad mind, bad heart. (Mals Mens, Malus Animus)
~ Anacharsis Cloots
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
~ Anatole France
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
~ Anatole France
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
~ Anatole France
Epicure a dit: ou Dieu veut empêcher le mal et ne le peut, ou il le peut et ne le veut, ou il ne le peut ni ne le veut, ou il le veut et le peut. S'il le veut et ne le peut, il est impuissant; s'il le peut et ne le veut, il est pervers; s'il ne le peut ni ne le veut, il est impuissant et pervers; s'il le veut et le peut, que ne le fait-il, mon père ?
~ Anatole France
Je porte dans mon coeur des villes innombrables et des déserts illimités. Et le mal, le mal et la mort, étendus sur cette immensité, la couvrent comme la nuit couvre la terre. Je suis à moi seul un univers de pensées mauvaises. Il parlait ainsi parce que le désir de la femme était en lui.
~ Anatole France
Men,' I said to myself, 'suffer because they are deprived of that which they believe to be good; or because, possessing it they fear to lose it; or because they endure that which they believe to be an evil. Put an end to all beliefs of this kind, and the evils would disappear.
~ Anatole France
Veo aquí materia suficiente para formar muchos Tomás de Aquino y muchos Arrios, si las inteligencias no hubieran perdido su antiguo ardor lo mismo para el bien que para el mal.
~ Anatole France
I freely acknowledge that it is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
~ Anatole France
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
~ Anatole France
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
~ Anatole France
lumea este totuna cu r?ul, un r?u mereu mai viclean dec?t poate b?nui omul, iar binele este una din vicleniile lui.
~ Andreï Makine
The "normal" family is, after all, the source of what the Devil enjoys most: anxiety, mental illness, violence, evil thoughts, fear, and social unrest. What the devil hates are attempts to escape the quotidian horror of ordinariness. These escapes into art, into otherness, must give him headaches because they might, just might, lead to innocence.
~ Andrei Codrescu
No human can give so much love to a human as a human can give only to a human. But no another human can spread so much evil, humiliation and instults to another, it's only given to us humans.
~ Andrej Danko
For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men's control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil's stranglehold will be easily broken.
~ Andrew Bernstein
Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.
~ Andrew Greeley
When fear is allowed to flourish in its dark and lonely medium, then any evil that can be conceived by the fearful imagination will emerge.
~ Andrew J. Robinson