Quotes of: Greater-evil Keyword

[first lines] Scotty: Hey, Ash, where are we? Ash: Well we just crossed the Tennessee border...

The Evil Dead

Brian Taylor: Hey, is that Big Evil's mom right there? Mike Zavala: Yeah, it is. That's Mrs. Evil.

End of Watch

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

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Pi Patel: He was such an evil man. But worse still, he brought the evil out in me. I have to live with that.

Life of Pi

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Hannah More

Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire.

Anonymous

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

Ursula K. Le Guin

man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time,

W.B. Yeats

If you have never seen evil, look closely at yourself some time.

Arabian

For the sake of one good action, a hundred evil ones should be forgotten.

Chinese

if you truly want to know why I'm helping you, you won't get any easy answers. It's not because I believe in the goodness of humankind. It's not because I believe God and the rest of the monsters are evil. I only wish to have the capacity to change. ...

The Crooked God Machine

The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The...

Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies

You look like a Greek God, not to attract me per say, but to be attractive to all. It’s part of your power, your persuasive way. It’s also part of the evil, to make it harder for you to remain good. Evil doesn’t just come in the form of a monst...

Destiny

In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other evils; and on that great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on the day the world...

The Guns of Avalon

The purpose of evil is to complement the good. If there is no hatred in this world, there can’t be any love too. While love is a positive emotion, hatred is a negative emotion. Yet the feeling of love can’t exist in a person without invoking hatr...

Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Sometimes what you think is true, what you think is safe and good, is actually evil in disguise. Evil is so enticing, so deceiving, that you don't know its evil until it's wrapped you up and caressed you as a lover. You gaze into its eyes, enraptured...

Beyond The Veil

The good repent on knowing their sin; the evil become angry when discovered. Ignorance is not the cause of evil, as Plato held; neither is education the answer to the removal of evil. These men had an intellect as well as a will; knowledge as well as...

Life of Christ

None of us asked for this life. I, of all people should know that our paths were chosen for us and we were just along for the ride, doing what was necessary and expected. There were far greater forces at work here. He was playing my heartstrings, whi...

Seeker of Fate

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

The Fault in Our Stars

The thought of going abroad makes my heart Leap," (Charles) Sumner wrote. "I feel, when I commune with myself about it, as when dwelling on the countenance and voice of a lovely girl. I am in love with .

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris