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Best Evil Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum…
- The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a…
- Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
- But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want;…
- The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,…
- Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.…
- Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
- God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go either wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature…
More Evil Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine