Evil Quotes - Page 40

• Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.

  Andrew Vachss

  Hero, People, Choices

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• The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.

  Richard Flanagan

  Past, Ideas, Perfection

  Richard Flanagan (2016). “Gould's Book of Fish”, p.423, Random House

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• There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see the distant heights where you once lived, that you understand your journey.

  Mark Lawrence

  Journey, Looks, Height

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.333, Penguin

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• Heaven and happiness do not exist. That is your parents’ way to justify the crime of having brought you into this world. What exists is reality, the tough reality, this slaughterhouse we’ve come to die in, if not to kill and to eat the animals, our fellow creatures. Therefore, do not reproduce, do not repeat the crimes committed against you, do not give back the same, evil paid with evil, as imposing life is the ultimate crime. Do not disturb the unborn, let them be in the peace of nothingness. Anyway we’ll all eventually go back there, so why beat around the bush?

  Fernando Vallejo

  Animal, Reality, Giving

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• Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of the myriad of forms to only two was the ultimate in dualistic reasoning. Christianity adopted dualism when it created the strict division between good and evil and heaven and hell.

  Leonard Shlain

  Two, Heaven, Division

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• Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison. We've raised the bar and you can't really step back.

  Butch Vig

  Artist, Track, Sound

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• The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

  Emmanuel Jal

  Eye, People, African American

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• I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Reading, Viewpoints

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1966). “The Objectivist”

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• God’s goodness is stronger than any evil!

  Pope Francis

  Stronger, Goodness

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• The NFL culture, the sports culture, has decided that they are more valuable than women. I've heard people laugh about keeping their pimp hand strong and keeping her in control so that she knows her place. But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.

  Terry Crews

  Sports, Strong, Men

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• Rather than becoming obsessed with the evil around you, ask God to give you a fresh perspective to see how He can bring good out of it. Look for the hand of God in your difficult situations. He is willing to use even the most horrible sins and the most foolish choices, as long as we trust Him to do just that.

  Phil Waldrep

  Hands, Difficult Situations, Long

  Phil Waldrep (2016). “Reaching Your Prodigal: What Did I Do Wrong? What Do I Do Now?”, p.106, Worthy Publishing

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• Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.

  William James

  Skulls, Healthy, Live In The Moment

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Men, Design, Forever

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• With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

  George Burns

  Talent, Stink, Collapse

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• That is why I took up the gun - not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk ... about how we can make the world a better place.

  Peter van Uhm

  Motivation, Inspiration, Gun

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• Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil.

  Chuck Smith

  Christian, Prayer, Doors

  Chuck Smith (1980). “Effective Prayer Life”

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• Sixth sense, six pack, six degrees of separation / My evil third eye blinks with no hesitation

  Ghostface Killah

  Eye, Six Packs, Degrees

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• To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things, Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli.

  Carlo Levi

  Pain, Land, Forever

  Christ Stopped at Eboli ch. 1 (1945)

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• It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.

  M. William Phelps

  Integrity, School, America

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• You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time that may be allowed you in this world: it behooves you most seriously to reflect upon your past conduct; to repent of your evil deeds, to be incessant in prayers to the great and merciful God to forgive your manifold transgressions and sins, to teach you to rely upon the merit and passion of a dear Redeemer.

  Thomas McKean

  Prayer, Passion, Past

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• Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.

  Thomas Boston

  Grace, Lust, Band

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• Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.

  Horatius Bonar

  Men, Guilt, Sin

  Horatius Bonar (1873). “The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.”, p.7

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• I give permission
  for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.

  Douglas Crockford

  Giving, Use, Permission

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• So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

  John Marsden

  Pain, Suffering, Mosquitoes

  John Marsden (2011). “The Tomorrow Series: Tomorrow When the War Began”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.

  Wei Wu Wei

  World, Unhappiness, Concepts

  "Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1963.

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