Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and… — Imagawa Sadayo Copy Share Image
The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I will keep constant watch over myself and—most usefully—will put each day up for review. For this is what makes us evil—that… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil… — William James Copy Share Image
A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names, For those have serv'd other men, haply may injure by… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I wonder,' said Frodo. 'It's my doom, I think, to go to that Shadow yonder, so that a way will be found.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Evil is evil. Big. Small. Grand. Petty. Well-justified or just because. There’s no lesser or greater of it. Choosing between them does… — C.T. Phipps Copy Share Image
It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs… — Robert Cecil Copy Share Image
Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward,… — Darcey Steinke Copy Share Image
One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil?… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
“There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.” — Idowu Koyenikan Copy Share Image
“That was his tactic. Make them want know something they never wanted to know. Lure them into the trap of knowledge.” — Sahana Epari Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise. — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
NBC's The West Wing is an icon for bad stories; Gitmo is a place where we keep an eye on evil, dangerous… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
