Accidents Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“The very power of evil is that it is not recognizable to us most of the time. It is not repellent at all. It…

— Anne Perry

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

— St. Jerome

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

— Ayn Rand

Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be…

— Kenneth Patchen

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

— Robert Baer

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

— Mark Twain

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

— Benjamin Franklin

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with…

— Abraham Lincoln

Allow the purity of evil to guide you.

— The Undertaker

Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood

— Dennis Prager

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

— Samuel Johnson

It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

— Tertullian