Evil Quotes - Page 14

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.

What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

The devil is more interesting than God.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it is true that we are daily producing more evil and, with it, an ocean of suffering for millions that is absolutely avoidable. When one day the ignorance arising from childhood repression is eliminated and humanity has awakened, an end can be put to this production of evil.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

I got a Lucifer soul. I'll be the Devil's son, Devil's work, gettin' work.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

I do sin, but I am not the devil.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Money the root of evil guess I'm the devil then. God bless my soul to rest.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

Anything that God wants you to have, there's no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won't quit and give up.

The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he’s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.

I have been waiting for the devil living inside of me to stop making love to all the ghosts you left behind.

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Use God's mighty weapons, not those made by men, to knock down the devil's strongholds.