Quotes of: Necessary-evil Keyword

I don't think it is necessary to make it necessary if it is not necessary.

ABC

Silence promotes the presence of God, prevents many harsh and proud words, and suppresses many dangers in the way of ridiculing or harshly judging our neighbors ... If you are faithful in keeping silence when it is not necessary to speak, God will pr...

Francois Fenelon

[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of Lucifer. It is as impossible for most men to conceive of a...

The Crucible

Yuri Orlov: The reason I'll be released is the same reason you think I'll be convicted. I *do* rub shoulders with some of the most vile, sadistic men calling themselves leaders today. But some of these men are the enemies of *your* enemies. And while...

Lord of War

Evil knows where evil sleeps.

Nigerian

When they say "no preparation necessary," do they mean to prepare isn't necessary, or that it's necessary to not prepare?

John Alejandro King

He who has done evil, expects evil.

Guinean

Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.

Amit Abraham

He who did evil expects evil.

French Guianese

So yes, black mages often can be evil. But black as a color is not inherently evil. Being influenced by black’s philosophies does not necessarily mean that one will commit an evil act. That being the case, we cannot say that black represent...

Magic: The Gathering: Official Encyclopedia: The Complete Card Guide, Volume 2

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Hesiod

If love is a battlefield and we all get scars....These were my reminders…my necessary thorns.

Those Necessary Thorns: Desiree Elizabeth Taylor

There is no absolute hate or evil. On the contrary hate or evil are always intimately blended with love and goodness. What causes more hate and evil is paradoxically what tends to be done in the name of love and goodness. Hence, in order to reduce ha...

Franco Santoro

The key to a good life is to balance the good and evil rather than trying to get rid of all evils because if you get rid of all your evils, you would also lose all your desire and ability to do good. In other words, you become neutral like neutron an...

Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

The Only Necessary Thing: Living a Prayerful Life

When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?

Culture and History

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

The Farseekers

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

Mencius

Brian Taylor: So Mr. Big Evil, why do they call you Big Evil? Big Evil: Because, my evil is big.

End of Watch

She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil.

Agatha Christie

Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to c...

Bill James