Evil Quotes - Page 35

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

Some devil with a pitchfork keep talkin' like he know me. I stood before an angel as he told me bout the glory.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.

Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

An evil discovered is half healed.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is incapable of spotting him. It stammers, overcome by its own moral disarmament, and is giving up: this is the time to seize the reins. Present society is an accomplice to the evil that is devouring it.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.

There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.

Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events.

You keep knocking on the devil's door long enough and sooner or later someone's gonna answer you.

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.

The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.