Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing in on each writers voice and setting. When I felt like I was obligated to write a story that was more typical, no one really liked it.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Don’t speak evil of someone if you don’t know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
I don’t think good and evil are polarized.
Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
Anti-capitalism is nothing new in Hollywood. From ‘Wall-E’ to ‘Avatar,’ corporations are routinely depicted as evil. The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing corporations is an irony capitalism cannot just absorb, but thrive on. Yet this anti-capitalism is only allowed within limits.
AI is neither good nor evil. It’s a tool. It’s a technology for us to use.
People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.
The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
I do like to explore evil characters in my books.
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
I don’t hate anyone. I just see the evil some pretend doesn’t exist.
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
To me, a ‘brand’ sounds evil.
Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip to the arcade. And as time moves on, that line of nostalgia will keep moving forward where ‘Frogger’ gets replaced with ‘Street Fighter 2’ or ‘Resident Evil 4.’
Voting for a candidate solely because of that candidate’s support for abortion or against him or her solely on the basis of his or her race is to promote an intrinsic evil. To do so consciously is indeed sinful. That is behavior incompatible with being a Christian.
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2.
What you get in the Cold War is ‘the wilderness of mirrors’ where you have to figure out what’s good and what’s evil. That’s good for John le Carre, but not me.
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ‘speculation’; but which ought to be called Gambling.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
I’m saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
It’s just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it’s starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it’s just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It’s called ‘Think Tank.’
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can’t wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension!
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
In the hip-hop world, Eazy-E was the personification of evil. He paid my hospital bill, about $60,000, but he made me pay him back, which is cool, except that I later found out that he paid the bill out of my share of a publishing deal he made for me.
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don’t have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I’m a little more respectful of ants.
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
When evil men destroy, good men must build and bind.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
