Quotes of: Evil Keyword

Evil triumphs when good men refuse to call it evil

Dean Cavanagh

Scotty: I'm gonna break your face!

The Evil Dead

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.

Adam Savage

As per the Indian philosophy of the Upanishads, the source of evil is one’s ego-sense –Ahankara—which differentiates oneself from the other selves. A person, who visualizes himself independent of others, tries to guard or please himself at the ...

Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin

I once had a published written debate with a religious apologist who, after I had argued the standard line that the idea of a loving and merciful deity is inconsistent with the fact of natural evil, said this meant his god was not all-powerful, and t...

The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism

Simple,' Tummeler replied.' Blueberries is one of the great forces o'good in the world.' How do you figure that?' said Charles. Well,' said Tummeler, 'have you ever seen a troll, or a Wendigo, or,' he shuddered, 'a Shadow-Born ever eating a blueberry...

Here, There Be Dragons

The word "yes" brings trouble; the word "no" leads to no evil.

African

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German

The betrothed of good is evil; the betrothed of life is death; the betrothed of love is divorce.

Malawian

Those who dig an evil hole will fall into it.

Palestinian

Put off the evil hour as long as you can.

Traditional

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple ...

The Amber Spyglass

In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsi...

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China

It may seem like good is always reacting in response to evil, and evil always makes the first move, but if the universe is essentially good, and I believe it is, then evil can only ever be reactionary.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

Caine's Law

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

There's only one great evil in the world today. Weapons.

Khalid Masood

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Logan Pearsall Smith

When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.

Max Lerner

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Socrates

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Saint Augustine