Best 5885 quotes in «evil quotes» category

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party, History, the Proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.

The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.

the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.

The two-party system is a bad joke on the American people; when it comes to Republicans and Democrats remember they are two sides of the same coin. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil and not an answer to our problems. A vote for a Republican or a Democrat will not fix anything and is a wasted vote.

The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

The United States is evil.

The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new scary, evil, dark sounds.

The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right.

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil.

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.