Evil Quotes - Page 20

• Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Angel, Hands, Long

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace

  L. J. Smith

  Triumph, May, Finding Peace

  L. J. Smith (2014). “Vampire Diaries: The First Bite 4-Book Collection: The Awakening, The Struggle, The Fury, Dark Reunion”, p.17, Harper Collins

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among men, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve thee in evil; but if indeed they do not exist, or if they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence? But Gods there are, undoubtedly, and they regard human affairs; and have put it wholly in our power, that we should not fall into what is truly evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fall, Men, Going Away

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II,

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When men don't fear god, they give themselves to evil

  Ray Comfort

  Men, Giving, Fear God

  15 Copy quote

• Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world- and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.

  Ken Ham

  Christian, Teaching, Giving

  80 Copy quote

• When I was younger I feared the dark, wondering what evil was watching me. Now it's different, for now it's a game of sneaking the light back on and laughing at how quickly the evil fleas.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Dark, Light, Games

  4 Copy quote

• The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Religious, Mad

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

  Enoch Powell

  Function, Supreme, Statesmanship

  John Enoch Powell, Rex Collings (1992). “Reflections”

  91 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.

  Paul Krugman

  Hate, Past, Violent Acts

  "Assassination Attempt In Arizona". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. January 8, 2011.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

  Glenn Gould

  Thinking, Law, Individual

  44 Copy quote

• I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor - even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns, I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero - that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants of that dream wherever I go, in my endless ride into the setting sun.

  Bill Hicks

  Dream, Hero, Heart

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are all part of some cosmic pattern, and this pattern works toward good and not evil. It builds and does not destroy. So I shall go on in my search for a race where I can find kinship and happiness.

  Henry Kuttner

  Race, Doe, Goes On

  Henry Kuttner (1968). “The Creature from Beyond Infinity”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Thinking, Blow

  64 Copy quote

• All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

  Vernor Vinge

  Comfort, Twisted, Admire

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky”, p.310, Hachette UK

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

  Jim Wallis

  Roles, World, Sides

  12 Copy quote

• THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it's not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss.

  Tad Williams

  Art, Humorous, Book

  4 Copy quote

• Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.

  Rolf Jacobsen

  Grief, Rain, Thinking

  Rolf Jacobsen (2001). “The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen”, p.17, Copper Canyon Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Twenty-six years ago the highest court in this land did an incredible thing. They issued a Supreme Court decision that really boils down to one simple and profoundly evil idea: They said that our unborn children have no rights that the rest of us are bound to respect. And when they made that decision they unleashed on America an unbelievable event that has undermined who we are and what we believe.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Believe, Simple

  "Bauer officially jumps into 2000 race". www.cnn.com. April 21, 1999.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.

  Glen Cook

  Men, Two, People

  4 Copy quote

• The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Opposites, Indifference

  181 Copy quote

• I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good—a positive good. . . . I hold then, that there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

  John C. Calhoun

  Color, Civilization, Two

  81 Copy quote

• We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz

  Primo Levi

  Men, Skins, Together

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.

  Hermann Broch

  Art, Negative, Doe

  12 Copy quote

• The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

  Joanne Harris

  Chocolate, Battle, Indecision

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.26, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How funny is it that so many professors labeled Tea Partiers as terrorists, while kissing the asses of real, bona fide terrorists? It's not funny, really. But it's the result of a simple equation: One is cool, and the other isn't. Own a gun and keep it by your bed in your remote farmhouse? You're a redneck. Purchase guns that end up killing a judge? Priceless. As long as you cling to cool, progressive beliefs that deem America evil, whatever you do is cool. And if you do it under a big fuzzy 'fro? Even cooler. Hell, if you 'fro is big enough, you could nuke an orphanage and still get tenure.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Real, Kissing, Redneck

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.72, Crown Forum

  30 Copy quote

  Show source