Quotes of: Evil Keyword

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

Georg Trakl

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

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.

John Stuart Mill

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury

John Mills

Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.

Juan Mascaró

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

John Henry Newman

A good deed that follows upon another is the reward for the first one, and an evil deed that follows upon another is a punishment for the first one.

Junayd

I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.

John Ortberg

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

Jacopo Sannazaro

Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep.

Judas Iscariot The Flight of the Feathered Serpent

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.

Jonathan Tropper

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.

David Davis

My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things... she wanted to protect me from it.

Diane von Furstenberg

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

David Harsanyi

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

Dean Koontz

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

D. H. Lawrence

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

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?

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

Neil MacGregor

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Comte de Lautreamont