Evil Quotes - Page 73

The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work. They knew how to punch through music that would cure and make people feel good.

A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.

If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?