Evil Quotes - Page 27

• The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

  Charles A. Reich

  Competition, Abuse, Causes

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

  Charles A. Reich

  Misuse, Existence

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

  William Throsby Bridges

  Jesus, Blood, Guilt

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• The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Land, Peasants, Salute

  Andrei Codrescu (2009). “The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess”, p.139, Princeton University Press

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• Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

  Hans Bender

  Earth, Mass, Projection

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• Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

  Sidney Howard

  People, Debate, These Days

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• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  Fanny Kemble

  Fear, Lying, Knowing

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.44, University of Georgia Press

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• Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Sin, Duty

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• We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win.

  Johnny Isakson

  War, Winning, World

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• In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Men, Victory, Unseen

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• Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Believe, Gains, Comfort

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• God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.

  David F. Wells

  Opposites, Holiness, Knows

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• Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.

  David F. Wells

  Purpose, Sovereignty, Purpose Of God

  Wells, David F. (2017). “The Courage to Be Protestant, 2nd ed.”, p.175, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Joy, Sensual

  David Paul, Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Poison and vision: poems and prose of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud”, Univ of Salzberg Pr

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• We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to describe the essence of the enemy we are attacking, the evil we are eradicating.

  Harvey Mansfield

  Sex, Essence, Enemy

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• You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

  Tom Lehrer

  Fun, Stupid, Thinking

  "Stop clapping, this is serious". Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Military, People, Police

  "Barrayar". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.

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• To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Civilization, Brotherhood

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.159, Penguin

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• The people who did this act on America, and who may be planning further acts, are evil people. They don't represent an ideology, they don't represent a legitimate political group of people. They're flat evil. That's all they can think about, is evil. And as a nation of good folks, we're going to hunt them down, and we're going to find them, and we will bring them to justice.

  George W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Evil People

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• Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which we now fear, originates chiefly from questions growing out of the respective rights of the different States and the unfortunate subject of slavery.

  John J. Crittenden

  Country, War, Rights

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• If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Heart

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

  Isaac Watts

  Forgiveness, Wise, Mean

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic”, p.331

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• Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Hate, Heart, Hatred

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.52

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• Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Faith, Religious, Thinking

  "An Atheist Responds" by Christopher Hitchens, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2007.

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• In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Law, People, Anarchy

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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