Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“...all the evils in the world come not because our desires for happiness are too strong, but because they are so weak… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. He would have us feel that we… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
. . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Everyone wants to know where evil comes from and why the world is riddled with it. Why doesn’t anyone ask where goodness… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
Life's sunniest hours are not without The shadow of some lingering doubt-- Amid its brightest joys will steal Spectres of evil yet… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s… — paul hoffman Copy Share Image
A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“She says it's too easy to call people evil instead of their choices and that lets people justify making evil choices. Because… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
True to form, many of the people who desire to frustrate God's purposes of giving mortal tabernacles to His spirit children through… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world;… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
“We have reached a stage in evolution which is not the final stage. We must pass through it quickly, for if we… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All… — John Parsons Copy Share Image
“Evil was a stupid word. It had the same sort of sense, largely meaningless, amorphous, diffuse, wooly, as applied to "love." Everyone… — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be… — St. Mark the Ascetic Copy Share Image
Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our world is guided by two principles and sources: God and the devil. All that is better in the world of men… — Justin Popovic Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
So how do theists respond to arguments like this? [The Argument from Evil] They say there is a reason for evil, but… — Quentin Smith Copy Share Image
Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12);… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot,… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
We know, deep down inside, it's wrong! There's nothing you can say to ever make it right! Killing is killing, no matter… — Ronald Richter Copy Share Image
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness.… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image