Quotes of: Greater-evil Keyword

Everything in this world seems to be created in pairs. If there is a man, there is a woman—in almost equal numbers. In the same way, there is pleasure with pain, love with hatred, wisdom with ignorance, passion with repulsion, ecstasy with depressi...

Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin

How does evil arise? Where does it come from? We think of malevolent men-— murderers, rapists, tyrants—and somehow believe they are different creatures from us. They are not. All evil men were once innocent babes, once lovable children. Men make ...

After Life

So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, ca...

Tomorrow, When the War Began

Knowing all of this makes me love and hate Jesus at the same time. Because, when instead of contrasting good and evil, he contrasted truth and evil, I have to think about all the times I've substituted being good (or appearing to be good) for truth.

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

The nose can’t help catchin’ what the ears get sick with. Yessir, rock bands just sweat evil. Evil’s been around for a long time, ever since rocks started getting real hot and making a lot of noise as they exploded out o’ the ground and evil ...

M.C. Humphreys

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it...

Giacomo Leopardi

There is a difference between what is wrong and what is evil. Evil is committed when clarity is taken away from what is clearly wrong, allowing wrong to be seen as less wrong, excusable, right, or an obligatory commandment of the Lord God Almighty. E...

John Hartung

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

English

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

French

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

It's always the lesser of two evils.' 'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.' -Connor

Unwind

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

Vile Bodies

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

Waylander

Between the pages of a book is a divine place to be.

In the Dark Shadow of Evil: The Countess de Couvegne Letters

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

Penn Jillette

If 9 out of 10 grandmothers selected from 10 respective cultures can agree it is evil, then it's evil. Cut it out.

Lynda Williams

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

John Cheever

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Jean Paul

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Margaret Thatcher

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Norman Mailer

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Richard John Neuhaus