Evil Quotes - Page 22

True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

I used to be such a daredevil but now I'm much more cautious.

The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.

This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers

Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil.

God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!