Evil famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.
-- Evan Sayet -
I explain how America hatred and Jew hatred are [INDEMIC] to Modern Liberalism and delve deeper into why it is the otherwise good and decent people will INVARIABLY side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.
-- Evan Sayet -
There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.
-- Evangeline Lilly -
I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.
-- Evangeline Lilly -
There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
-- Evelyn Waugh -
In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'
-- Evgeny Morozov -
Each day the forces of evil and the forces of good enlist new recruits. Each day we personally make many decisions showing the cause we support. The final outcome is certain---the forces of righteousness will win. But what remains to be seen is where each of us personally, now and in the future, will stand in this battle---and how tall we will stand. Will we be true to our last days and fulfill our foreordained missions?
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
Have a good physical outlet of some sport or exercise. Overcome evil with good. You can overcome many evil inclinations through good physical exertion and healthful activities. A healthy soul...is in better condition to overthrow the devil.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
-- F. H. Bradley -
Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought....But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts
-- Fabolous -
Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
-- Fanny Burney -
The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.
-- Fanny Kemble -
Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.
-- Fatima bint Muhammad -
Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
-- Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Heaven and happiness do not exist. That is your parents’ way to justify the crime of having brought you into this world. What exists is reality, the tough reality, this slaughterhouse we’ve come to die in, if not to kill and to eat the animals, our fellow creatures. Therefore, do not reproduce, do not repeat the crimes committed against you, do not give back the same, evil paid with evil, as imposing life is the ultimate crime. Do not disturb the unborn, let them be in the peace of nothingness. Anyway we’ll all eventually go back there, so why beat around the bush?
-- Fernando Vallejo -
The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.
-- Fiorello H. La Guardia -
A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.
-- Fisher Ames -
We must substitute fear for faith, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
-- Florence Scovel Shinn -
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.
-- Frances Farmer -
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race.
-- Frances Wright -
... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.
-- Frances Wright -
To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.
-- Francesco Guicciardini -
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
-- Francesco Guicciardini -
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.
-- Francesco Guicciardini -
Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for very evil purposes.
-- Francis Lieber -
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent.
-- Francis Quarles -
In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment.
-- Francis Quarles -
If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.
-- Francis Quarles -
The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.
-- Francisco Franco -
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.
-- Francois Rabelais -
Bread sets free; but does not necessarily set free for good ends -- that dear illusion of so many generous hearts. It sets a man free to choose: it often sets free for the bad, but man has a right to that choice and to that evil, without which he is no longer a man.
-- Francoise Mallet-Joris -
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
-- Frank A. Clark -
Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.
-- Frank Norris -
To put it simply, when you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a thing as good. When you say there is such a thing as good, you must assume there is a moral law by which to distinguish between good and evil.
-- Frank Turek -
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
-- Frank Zappa -
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.
-- Frantz Fanon -
Fundamentally, however, there is neither good nor evil; this is all based on human concepts. In the universe there exists neither good nor evil, because everything has been created in accordance with immutable laws. the divine principles are reflected in these laws, and only through knowing these laws will we be able to get close to the divine.
-- Franz Bardon -
God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.
-- Fred Phelps -
Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins!
-- Fred Phelps -
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.
-- Frederic Farrar -
When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation.
-- Frederick Franck -
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.
-- Frederick Jackson Turner -
Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?
-- Frederick William Faber -
There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.
-- Friedensreich Hundertwasser -
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.
-- Friedrich August von Hayek -
Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.
-- Friedrich Kellner -
I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in the future. I would give the coming generations a weapon against any resurgence of such evil. My eyewitness account would record the barbarous acts, and also show the way to stop them.
-- Friedrich Kellner -
Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book, Mein Kampf!
-- Friedrich Kellner -
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives.
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
Nothing can do men of good will more harm than apparent compromises with parties that subscribe to antimoral and antidemocratic and anti-God forces. We must have the courage to detach our support from men who are doing evil. We must bear them no hatred, but we must break with them.
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life.
-- G. H. Hardy -
One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff -
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
-- G. M Gilbert -
By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the victorious struggle of God against the principalities and powers of evil.
-- Gabriel Fackre -
It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.
-- Gail Carriger -
It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it is an infinite evil. It is one thing to mourn for it because it is injurious to ourselves; another, to mourn for it because it is offensive to God. It is one thing to be terrified; another, to be humbled.
-- Gardiner Spring -
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
-- Garrett Fort -
Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.
-- Gary Zukav -
The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.
-- Gary Zukav -
Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.
-- Gary Zukav -
Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.
-- Gautama Buddha -
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
-- Gautama Buddha -
What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
-- Gautama Buddha -
Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.
-- Gen Urobuchi -
There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.
-- Gene Simmons -
The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.
-- Gene Simmons -
Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.
-- Gene Stratton-Porter -
You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.
-- Gene Wolfe -
You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right. We'll all be all right. I wanted you to know that.
-- Geoff Ryman -
I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.
-- Geoffrey Fisher -
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
-- Georg Trakl -
I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.
-- George Arnold -
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.
-- George Carlin -
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
-- George Eliot -
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
-- George Eliot
