Evil Quotes - Page 58

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

It seems to me that we make a terrible mistake in talking about Trump as some kind of essence of evil. Trump is symptomatic of something much deeper in the culture, whether we're talking about the militarization of everyday life, whether we're talking about the criminalization of social problems, or whether we're talking about the way in which money has absolutely corrupted politics. This is a country that is sliding into authoritarianism.

The devil is compromise.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

My administration has a job to do and we're going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions.

So we can see we must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

You never know when the devil might come calling.

... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.

As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing.

People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.

In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.

For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.