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Evil Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been…
- Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there.
- And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were…
- You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all…
- You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.
- There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military…
- Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!" said Aragorn sternly. "You know not what you say. There is in her and in this land, no…
- We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is…
- Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.
- We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true…
- I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
- Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have…
- It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those…
- Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant…
- What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity,…
- Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will…
- But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so…
- He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think.…
- I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the…
- For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.
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