Evil Quotes - Page 55

Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

God's will is that none should perish. Judgement isn't His desire ... but His necessity. The good must bring evil to an end, or else it would cease to be good. And yet His mercy is still greater than His judgement. His heart always wills for redemption. And therein lies the hope.

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are defective members, that there are tares amid the wheat. . . . Although there are evils existing in the church, and will be until the end of the world, the church in these last days is to be the light of the world that is polluted and demoralized by sin. The church, enfeebled and defective, needing to be reproved, warned, and counseled, is the only object upon earth upon which Christ bestows His supreme regard.

Evil to him who evil thinks.