Lloyd Alexander Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• ...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?

  Lloyd Alexander

  Writing, Ignorance, People

• Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

  Lloyd Alexander

  Evil, Mask

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.85, Usborne Publishing Ltd

• Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Evil, Wish

  "The Chronicles of Prydain, Book V: The High King". Book by Lloyd Alexander, 1968.

• Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Names, Evil, Looks

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.119, Usborne Publishing Ltd

• Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Hate, Believe, Heart

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.164, Usborne Publishing Ltd

• Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Men, Evil, Judging

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.351, Macmillan

• Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Evil, Justice, Noble

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.149, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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