Evil Quotes - Page 39

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

I live for now, not for what happens after I die. I'm going to hell, not heaven. The devil has all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns.

We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.

Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.

And I flirted with the devil and he dealt me a card. He told me that you will never win. So I sold my soul to the devil. I never thought it could be this bad. And I got the devil takin' me away

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?

People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is. So after death, it is we, not the Lord, who cast ourselves into hell.

... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood

He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.

Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.