Evil Quotes

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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. — William Penn
Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to… — William Penn
I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my… — Ludwig van Beethoven
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's… — Jerry Garcia
The great lesson of our time is that evil still exists, and when evil is on the march, it must be confronted. — Unknown Author
We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have… — Alan Keyes
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it… — Carlo Collodi
You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are… — Walter E. Williams
True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being… — Carl Rogers
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.… — Unknown Author
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. — William James
Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good. — Unknown Author
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices — Paul Valery
We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke… — Mike Pence
To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.... — Richard Hofstadter
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with… — Richard Hofstadter
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive. — Lee Strobel
A baseball manager is a necessary evil. — Sparky Anderson
We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times. — Pope Pius X

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