Evil Quotes - Page 54

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights and such a sorry end, was a person of undoubted, if evil genius. It is true that in the German people, as a mysterious Providence and centuries of experience had molded them up to that time, he found a natural instrument which he was able to shape to his own sinister ends.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

We have seen many instances where the free world didn't seem to understand the nature of evil or the battle against evil in their time. We've watched Nazism and fascism and imperial Japan and communism and totalitarianism, and now it seems to be we're all battling against terrorism.

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.