Evil Quotes - Page 83

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

To kill a citizen of our own country is evil, but to kill a citizen of another country is 'good.'

The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.

I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"

We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions

Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions.

For God to forgive sinners without the full penalty being paid would contradict His justice and make Him our partner in evil. Christ fully paid that penalty for our sins--but the pardon must be willingly and gladly received. God will not force anyone into heaven.

Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go.

The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.

It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.

The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.

Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.