The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
The pastor looks at the money. It is money coming from the wife of a sodomite. It is money coming from a woman. It is the deep-lying root of evil. But it is a lot of money.
I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no!
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
I have a bad reputation because I play evil from the outside but if you get closer I hide heaven inside me❤ ❤
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Evil isn't born...Neither is purity. Because even as newborns, there is something wrong inside of all of us bound to spring up and activate itself within us.
A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
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.
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.
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
Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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.
