Evil Quotes - Page 39

• [We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Motivation, Inspiration, Jealous

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• To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering is one of the greatest of God's gifts, is almost to reach a mystical solution of the problem of evil.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Creativity, Order, Ideas

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• Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

  Epictetus

  Philosophy, Exercise, Decision

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book II, Chapter 8,

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• ...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

  Martin Luther

  Overcoming, Anticipation, Endure

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.146

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• Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a worse sort of them...are fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumor-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the Devil's dunghill.

  John Aylmer

  Nice, Women, Two

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• The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, World, Fit

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2100, Manonmani Publishers

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• This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the Vedanta finds out that Unity. It says, "Give up what is evil and give up what is good." What remains then? Behind good and evil stands something which is yours, the real you, beyond every evil, and beyond every good too, and it is that which is manifesting itself as good and bad. Know that first, and then and then alone you will be a true optimist, and not before; for then you will be able to control everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Real, Unity

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.177, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

  Ayn Rand

  Winning, Want, Earth

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”

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• Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

  John Tillotson

  Gratitude, Affliction, Disease

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.104

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• She's just a devil woman
  With evil on her mind
  Beware the devil woman
  She's gonna get you
  She's just a devil woman
  With evil on her mind

  Cliff Richard

  Halloween, Mind, Devil

  Song: Devil Woman, Album: I'm Nearly Famous, 1976

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• The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Saws, Firsts, Brilliant

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

  Aldous Huxley

  Necessary Evil, Chaos, Generalities

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

  William Faulkner

  Done, Littles, Chaos

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.172, Modern Library

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• Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Decision, Engagement, Mankind

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• To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

  Wayne Dyer

  Imperfection, Judgment, Perceive

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• The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil.

  Hans Morgenthau

  Simple, Thinking, Mind

  Hans Morgenthau (1955). “Politics Among Nations”

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• We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.

  Charles Clarke

  Small Numbers, Cities, London

  "MI5 Faces Tough Questions on Decision to Relax Security". www.independent.co.uk. July 08, 2005.

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• God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.

  Peter Kreeft

  Powerful, Evil People, World

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• The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.

  Josef Pieper

  Men, Wrath, Brave

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• There's nothing nice about Steve Jobs and there's nothing evil about Bill Gates

  Chuck Peddle

  Jobs, Nice, Bills

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• I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought far more misery crime and suffering far more tyranny and evil than any other.

  Eliza Lynn Linton

  Christian, Thinking, Light

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• I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Past, Opportunity, Heaven

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.238, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Fall, Army, Foundation

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• Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

  Chanakya

  Eye, Men, Lust

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• Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

  Zainab Salbi

  Strong, War, Taken

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