Evil famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Good and evil both increase at compound interest.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.
-- Cal Thomas -
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress...
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!
-- Cara Delevingne -
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.
-- Carl Jung -
Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.
-- Carl Jung -
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
-- Carl Jung -
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
-- Carl Jung -
Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.
-- Carl Jung -
True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".
-- Carl Rogers -
Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.
-- Carl Sagan -
Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25
-- Carlo Collodi -
The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.
-- Carlo Levi -
To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things, Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli.
-- Carlo Levi -
You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.
-- Carlos Santana -
In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God.
-- Carlton Pearson -
Our allies in the Middle East know that the Islamic State is their fight - and they have asked for very specific things to help push back against ISIL.We must give our allies the help they need to confront and defeat this evil.
-- Carly Fiorina -
We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better.
-- Carol Matas -
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
-- Carolyn Wells -
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
-- Carroll Quigley -
I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness." Tessa looked at will. "What about you? What do you believe? "Pulvis et umbra sumus," said Will, not looking at her as he spoke. "I believe we are dust and shadows. What else is there?
-- Cassandra Clare -
Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.
-- Catherine Marshall -
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
-- Cato the Elder -
I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.
-- Chaim Potok -
A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.
-- Chaim Potok -
Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric
-- Charlaine Harris -
By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry that the maenad picked on you." I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation. Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me." That's more like it.
-- Charlaine Harris -
Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.
-- Charles A. Beard -
The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.
-- Charles A. Reich -
It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.
-- Charles A. Reich -
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
La volupte  unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalite ; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always a product of art.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.
-- Charles Brockden Brown -
The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole ***** nation of ***** driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.
-- Charles Churchill -
Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.
-- Charles Churchill -
The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.
-- Charles Clarke -
Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.
-- Charles Colson -
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
-- Charles Darwin -
I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
-- Charles Dickens -
And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
-- Charles Dickens -
I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not astonished at our evil nature breaking forth, when we are willing for the last to be first, when we are willing to be the least in Heaven that every one we know should be higher than ourselves, then, I think, our lesson is learnt. If we are annoyed at any disparaging remark or conduct of our fellows, it is because we are not yet fully aware of our being nothing.
-- Charles George Gordon -
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.
-- Charles Hermite -
It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.
-- Charles Hodge -
If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured.
-- Charles Hodge -
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.
-- Charles James Fox -
Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.
-- Charles Kimball -
Time and circumstance made me into this Manson guy, Satan. Society wanted to buy this evil, mass-murdering-devil-fiend. I'm nobody. I'm the hobo in line. Give me a bottle of wine and put me on a train. I don't fit into the world you guys live in, so I live over there in the shadows of it.
-- Charles Manson -
This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.
-- Charles Orville Whitley -
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
-- Charles Simmons -
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
-- Charles Simmons -
If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer live in sin, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for his sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world
-- Charles Spurgeon -
If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
If you were God’s children you would loathe the very thought of the world’s evil joys, and your question would not be, “How far may we be like the world?†but your one cry would be, “How far can we get away from the world? How much can we come out from it?
-- Charles Spurgeon -
An unholy church! It is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hells laughter, heavens abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.
-- Charles Sumner -
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.
-- Charles Sumner -
I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.
-- Charles Van Doren -
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt -
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
-- Charles Wagner -
The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.
-- Charles Wesley -
Shut your evil mucus-hole you truth terrorist. You LOSE every time a mirror implodes from your barbed and gristle image.
-- Charlie Sheen -
The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:.
-- Charlotte Mason -
Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.
-- Charlton Heston -
I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.
-- Chen Guangcheng -
I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.
-- Chen Guangcheng -
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
-- Chester A. Arthur -
Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis ***** dependency.
-- Chino XL -
Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.
-- Chris Hedges -
The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism
-- Chris Hedges -
Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.
-- Chris Kyle -
But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.
-- Chris Kyle -
I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
-- Chris Martin -
No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.
-- Chris Murphy -
This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway, oh no, this is the road to hell.
-- Chris Rea -
What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?
-- Christian Harrison -
Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee
