If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“For God would never have created any human beings, let alone any angels, whose future evil he foreknew, if he had not… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Well, I've heard a lot of people, but I think I would say a Brazilian musician named Hermeto Pascoal was one of… — Flora Purim Copy Share Image
If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general,… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
“It’s no secret that we all live within a damning illusion called denial. We are doomed by our own far-reaching imaginations and… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to… — George K. Simon Jr Copy Share Image
I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants has a huge plan that stems from the earlier issues of Uncanny X-Force. Archangel's fall was really… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
A little background: Annabeth used to adventure with Hermes's son Luke. Over time, Annabeth developed a crush on Luke. As Annabeth got… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
“November 15, 1972, Pope Paul VI spoke out on the matter to a general audience, saying that “evil is not merely a… — Matt Baglio Copy Share Image
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil. Good and evil are not fixed stable entities but are continually… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Both [Satan and Melkor/Morgoth] are loud in their defiance, claiming that they would "rather rule in hell than serve in heaven". One… — David Day Copy Share Image
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money?… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and… — African Spir Copy Share Image
There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
Listen, I didn't ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents' DNA, I've… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
Heaven and happiness do not exist. That is your parents’ way to justify the crime of having brought you into this world.… — Fernando Vallejo Copy Share Image
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It is indeed surprising that a man inspite of his belief in the Fire of Jahannum is still able to laugh, and… — Moses Copy Share Image
There must be much more going on behind the scenes. The pivotal question is this: What is behind the deep-seated hatred that… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The fire covered the field, the flames worked fast. I glanced over at Preston who was watching the destruction with a dark… — Chris Fraser Copy Share Image
“The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the deeper layers of the modern consciousnessevery attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is,… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image