Quotes of: Moral-evil Keyword

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

The Autobiography of God

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.

The Age of Innocence

...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.

Ancillary Justice

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.

Anna Karenina

Once they're in...they stay in. And that little bitch invited that evil into herself like a hard dick on prom night.

AFTERTASTE: An Extreme Horror Novel

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

The Apology

What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

Heaven

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Interview with the Vampire

...or perhaps about acknowledging that life is a delicate balance of great forces, and that good would lose its potency if there was no evil left to fight in the world.

Juliet

The world has many places that can make us uncomfortable. Calling them evil, or any other bad name, doesn’t make them go away.

Journey

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

Justine

There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. Sometimes we fail.

Red Rising

No rational person would intentionally commit an act of evil, for everyone knows that it would bring the wrath of the community upon him. (Socrates)

Stealing Athena

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

Steal This Book

Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.

The School for Good and Evil

My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?...

Shadow's Edge

Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are

The School for Good and Evil

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

The Sound and the Fury

She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.

Salem's Lot