Evil Quotes - Page 15

• No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

  George Eliot

  Love, Effort, Temptation

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3402, Delphi Classics

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• The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

  Alexander Berkman

  Liberty, Libertarian, Disorder

  Alexander Berkman (2003). “What is Anarchism?”, p.234, AK Press

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• The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Mother, Eye, Son

  Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.23

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• In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Real, Choices, World

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• Evil will win if good people do nothing.

  P. C. Cast

  Winning, People, Real Talk

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• Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Seductive, Virtue, Easy

  Melissa de la Cruz (2013). “Gates of Paradise: Number 7 in series”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• Evil is whatever distracts.

  Franz Kafka

  Literature, Madness

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
  If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
  If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
  If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

  Epicurus

  Religion, Atheism, Wicked

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• There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Order, Atheism, Explanation

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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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

  Doe, Evil Things, Seems

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• Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Balance, Trying, World

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• Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Good Man, Action

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• They, who know no evil, will suspect none.

  Ben Jonson

  Knows, Suspects

  "Every Man in his Humour".

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• But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

  William Joyce

  Men, Weakness, Force

  William Joyce (2012). “The Guardians: Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King; E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the Earth's Core!; Toothiana, Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

  Will Durant

  Forever, Events, Lost

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• There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Evil Within, Mark

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• Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Knowing, Trouble, Lesser Evil

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• It is your karma to fight evil. It doesn't matter if the people that evil is being committed against don't fight back. It doesn't matter if the entire world chooses to look the other way. Always remember this. You don't live with the consequences of other people's karma. You live with the consequences of your own

  Amish Tripathi

  Karma, Fighting, People

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• If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.

  Storm Constantine

  Brother, Passion, Dark

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• There is a little good in all evil.

  Wilson Rawls

  Littles

  Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.228, Laurel Leaf

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• I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Chimera, Degrading

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• No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Successful, Men, Wicked

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• Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

  Aesop

  Kindness, Long, Lasts

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

  Orson Scott Card

  Trying, Maps, Said

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.142, Macmillan

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• Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing Means to achieve them. To train this Animal, and make him amenable to Order; to inure him to a Sense of Justice and Virtue, to withhold him from ill Courses by Fear, and encourage him in his Duty by Hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for Society, hath been the Aim of civil and religious Institutions; and, in all Times, the Endeavour of good and wise Men. The aptest Method for attaining this End, hath been always judged a proper Education.

  George Berkeley

  Education, Wise, Fashion

  "A Discourse Addressed to Magistrates and Men in Authority: Occasioned by the Enormous License, and Irreligion of the Times". Book by George Berkeley, 1738.

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