Evil Quotes - Page 75

Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?

There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.

In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

Of two evils, choose the more interesting.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.

I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

Don't be evil is a load of crap.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm" also means a "a magical device to avert evil," and in 1970 it was realized that the old three quark theory ran into very serious problems. ... As if by magic the existence of the charmed quark would [solve those problems].

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

I've gone through three changes- I thought I was a Christian then I was the devil then the third one, where I know who I am you know I feel like I'm an alien.

Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

When men don't fear god, they give themselves to evil

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

So how do theists respond to arguments like this? [The Argument from Evil] They say there is a reason for evil, but it is a mystery. Well, let me tell you this: I'm actually one hundred feet tall even though I only appear to be six feet tall. You ask me for proof of this. I have a simple answer: it's a mystery. Just accept my word for it on faith. And that's just the logic theists use in their discussions of evil.

And even though we both fly Give each other space and not the evil eye

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.