Edward Dahlberg Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Evil, Vices

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

• Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Art, Writing, People

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”

• We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Evil, Sin

• There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Long, Evil

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Cipango's Hinder Door”

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