Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
Our ‘neoconservatives’ are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
Nobody should be forced to face evil with empty hands.
Evil societies always kill their consciences.
There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.
I think that money is the root of all evil. I’ve seen it happen.
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody’s got to pay for them so they’re a necessary evil.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
In this very real world, good doesn’t drive out evil. Evil doesn’t drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another’s.
I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
We all say, ‘You don’t have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.’
The ‘Axis of Evil’ was – and is – very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don’t harden our schools and protect our kids.
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.
I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Evil comes in many forms, and whether you are male or female, that doesn’t matter as much as what lurks in your mind.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It’s only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
Increasing the sale of liquor may benefit the government in terms of revenue. But liquor is a social evil, and its biggest victims are women and their children.
The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can’t really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It’s all just a matter of where you’re standing.
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
The people who whine about Fox News are hypocrites – they say they’re totally tolerant, but when they run into someone who doesn’t share their assumptions, they say, ‘Fox News is evil, and it must be stopped.’
I don’t buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It’s just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Young people are threatened… by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
There are evil people, and I don’t even want to hear those guys speak.
Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
If you vote for evil, you are evil yourself.
God made a mistake when he gave to humans, infected as they are with evil, jurisdiction over Earth. He should have given jurisdiction to animals.
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
The moment you introduce the element of IT, which is an interdimensional evil entity, the presence of the turtle comes with it, as a counterbalance.
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
You have to go to what the essence of what Pennywise is about – the dark power of adulthood. It’s not coincidence all the grown-ups in town are evil. This is not a story about a monster. It’s a story about the end of childhood.
I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you’re a kid, seven or eight years old, and you’re looking at the world around you – everything seems black or white, good or bad.
Music is a part of someone’s soul. Music is a feeling for me. And if that soul is evil, then I don’t want anything to do with it.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His direct will, which is good and perfect with no evil in it.
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
