Evil Quotes - Page 23

• Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

  Philip James Bailey

  Hell, Bearable, Nothingness

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.36

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• 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, Vices, Sage

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

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• It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Rely Upon, Wicked

  Charles Hodge (1860). “An Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians”, p.340

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• No man ever became very wicked all at once.

  Juvenal

  Men, Wicked

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• Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

  Tryon Edwards

  Easier, Results, Remedy

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1063, Ravenio Books

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• The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  History, Lessons, Firsts

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• Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.

  Earl Nightingale

  Real, People, Anxiety

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• The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Assumption, High Places

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• Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, Errors, People

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.94

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• It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  War, Character, Fighting

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• Come and let the healing, cleansing rays of Calvary play upon your hearts until the very seed of evil is sterilized.

  Stuart Holden

  Healing, Heart, Play

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• I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not astonished at our evil nature breaking forth, when we are willing for the last to be first, when we are willing to be the least in Heaven that every one we know should be higher than ourselves, then, I think, our lesson is learnt. If we are annoyed at any disparaging remark or conduct of our fellows, it is because we are not yet fully aware of our being nothing.

  Charles George Gordon

  Believe, Thinking, Annoyed

  Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan

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• One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

  E. M. Forster

  Money, Temptation, Looks

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Temptation, Fever

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.47

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• Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

  Mark Twain

  Temptation, Erring, Way

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• I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Selfish, Thinking, Temptation

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Of two evils we must always choose the least.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Two, Two Evils

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• I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.

  Gordon Parks

  Beautiful, Gun, Knives

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• But if you close your eyes and listen to Palin and her most irate supporters constantly squawk or bellyache or tweet about how unfair a ride she gets from evil mustache-twirling elites and RINO saboteurs, she sounds like a professional victimologist, the flip side of any lefty grievance group leader. She’s becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska edition. The only difference being, she wears naughty-librarian glasses instead of a James Brown ‘do.

  Matt Labash

  Eye, Naughty, Differences

  "Palin 'becoming Al Sharpton'?". www.politico.com. 2012.

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• It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution.

  Daniel Pipes

  Mistake, Islam, Blame

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• Thank God for 9/11. Thank God that, five years ago, the wrath of God was poured out upon this evil nation. America, land of the sodomite damned. We thank thee, Lord God Almighty, for answering the prayers of those that are under the altar.

  Fred Phelps

  Prayer, Wrath, Years

  "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.

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• 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

  America, Vengeance, Sin

  "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.

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• Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

  Steven Biko

  Majority, Arrogant, Assumption

  "I Write What I Like (We Blacks)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

  Juvenal

  Umpires, Vices, Worst

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• Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone

  Denise Mina

  Attitude, Animal, People

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