Evil Quote by W. Somerset Maugham Download Open image “Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.” — W. Somerset Maugham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evil Order Physics Summing up Universe
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“evil' is after all a relative term: there being a minor and pragmatical sort, to be disposed of as one swats a fly, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good. — Guillermo del Toro 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; it constituted… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth -- no forward movement, no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image