I wouldn’t say jamie is an evil genius. I’m not sure he’s evil and I’m not sure he’s a genius.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.
Nation should be rest assured Pakistan is a safe atomic power. No one can cast an evil eye on it.
I profess accurately to describe native Africa – Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.
Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation.
We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.
What would I have done if I’d been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.
The most unrealistic thing I’ve ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don’t believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
How can we condemn those who are truly blinded by evil? We can’t. We shouldn’t. How do we bring about conversion of those living in blindness? By love. By truth in charity. By offering forgiveness. By offering mercy. With prayer.
As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire’s rewards.
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists… to understand how those evil things came about.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‘evil.’ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.
I started realizing how the condition of our hearts affects the way we see. If your heart is full of bitterness, anger, and resentment, you’re going to look at this world as a very evil place.
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
Evil report carries further than any applause.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
Every day, do small gestures of generosity! It does not mean go to Cambodia. Do it at home. If you do nothing at home, evil becomes normal.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
I don’t need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.
Here we are in the 70’s when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it’s just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man’s restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.
Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
