Evil Things Quotes - Page 2

• the evil thing is inside, not out.

  Suzanne Collins

  Evil

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”, p.301, Scholastic

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• If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Evil People, Pay, Would Be

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Fighting, History, Evil

  Neville Chamberlain (2005). “The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Downing Street years, 1934-1940”, Ashgate Publishing

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• Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

  John Milton

  Time, Power, Night

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.98

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• Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.

  Wilfred Bion

  Learning, Men, Evil

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• I do utterly despise dailiness as it stands. I can't abide what the world has become, the frozen-ness of our product this evil thing that we kiss the ass of every hour. I want a dailiness that is free and beautiful

  Alice Notley

  Beautiful, Kissing, Evil

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• There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though but as a guard to thy house: let him be to thee wall and fence, shield and spear. Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Wall, Men, Evil

  Saint John Chrysostom, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint John Chrysostom Collection [10 Books]”, p.2690, Aeterna Press

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• We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

  Jared Diamond

  Evil, Mind, Literature

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• In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Character, Race, Evil

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, New York, Years

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• 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.

  Terry Eagleton

  People, Evil, Goal

  Terry Eagleton (2010). “On Evil”, p.4, Yale University Press

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• I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

  Lawrence Durrell

  Mirrors, Evil, Done

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• I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.

  Nick Cave

  Beautiful, Rocks, Years

  "I saw music could be a beautiful, evil thing, while my parents shifted uncomfortably" by Nick Cave, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2003.

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• History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Real, People, Evil

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• I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Thinking, Hard Times, Evil

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• However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Congratulations, Failure, Evil

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• I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Clouds, Evil, Long

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_”, p.844, e-artnow

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• Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Reading, Sleep

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• How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Jesus, Years

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• Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.' We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.

  John Steinbeck

  Brother, Men, Hands

  "East of Eden".

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• I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Giving, People

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• Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

  David Ogilvy

  Evil, Marketing, Advertising Business

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  Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Death, Men, Two

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• It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.

  Kate Constable

  Evil, Doe, Seems

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• Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

  George MacDonald

  Evil, Slaying, Annihilation

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1525, e-artnow

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