Quotes of: Evil Keyword

She talked about God giving man free will. Because of that, there is evil in the world. If God pulled everyone’s strings all the time, we’d be puppets.

Critical Pursuit

To resist evil is to stand firm against the wrong committed without reacting to the wrong-doer!

A Cup of Grace for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

Clockwork Princess

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

Carrie

One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.

The Crimson Shadow

...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

David Copperfield

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

Death Masks

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

Danse Macabre

Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.

The Devil and Miss Prym

All souls make choices throughout their lives, some are good and some are evil - their fate with the universe has no bearing on those choices. Their choices permit them to be whole or to remain fragmented

Destiny's Revenge

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.

The Dream of Scipio

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

The Dead Town

I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.

The Dragon's Path/Leviathan Wakes

Emotions is evil. People who make me feel are worse. I take comfort in the stone inside of me. If I don't feel, I don't hurt.

Dare You To

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.

Everlasting Righteousness

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

The Female Eunuch

Among the world's evils—fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation— smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kid's school.

The Financial Lives of the Poets

Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.

Fragments

What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered.

The Farthest Shore