Evil Quotes - Page 27

• I saw satan laughing with delight
  The day the music died.

  Don McLean

  Laughing, Delight, Saws

  Song: Miss American Pie, Album: American Pie

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• When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But if you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral Law Giver, but that's Who you're trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there's no moral Law Giver, there's no moral law. If there's no moral law, there's no good. If there's no good, there's no evil. What is your question?

  Ravi Zacharias

  Law, Trying, World

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Aug 20, 2014

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• We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Weakness, Wickedness, Changed

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• We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

  Herbert Spencer

  Soul, Forget, Goodness

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.3

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• Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hands, Good And Evil, Hand In Hand

  "Marilyn Manson is back. Call an exorcist!" by Neil Spencer, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable and legal course, and cannot be obtained by forcible means, or if they could be got by forcible means, such means create more evils than they cure, and leave the country worse than they found it.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Country, Mean, Political

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• Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

  Brander Matthews

  Giving, Doubt, Credit

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• I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Political, Social, Found

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• I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.

  Steven Weinberg

  Hands, Might, Needs

  Steven Weinberg (2001). “Facing Up”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Squares, Roots, Irrationality

  "Irrationality is the Square Root of All Evil". Scientific American, 249 (3), September 1983.

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• We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

  Donald Knuth

  Learning, Roots, Debugging

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• Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

  Donald Knuth

  Science, Roots, Debugging

  Donald Ervin Knuth (1986). “TEX: The Program”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

  Donald Knuth

  Opportunity, Roots, Debugging

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• The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

  Larry Wall

  Greater Good, Greater

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• The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings are the entities of enlightenment, and that the sufferings of birth and death are nirvana. It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.

  Nichiren

  Lying, Mirrors, Jewels

  "The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin".

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• All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life’s experience is but the outer expression of inner thought. Now we can choose the sort of thoughts that we entertain. It will be a little difficult to break a bad habit of thought, but it can be done. We can choose how we shall think—in point of fact, we always do choose—and therefore our lives are just the result of the kind of thoughts we have

  Emmet Fox

  Jesus, Destiny, Thinking

  Emmet Fox (2010). “The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.

  Emmet Fox

  Emmet Fox (1940). “Power Through Constructive Thinking”

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• The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in building the good. They know that when the light is made strong, the darkness will disappear of itself.

  Christian D. Larson

  Strong, Character, Light

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• It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Way, Weakness, Depravity

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• A man who knows a thing, recognizes a given danger, and sees with his own eyes the possibility of a remedy, damned well has the duty and the obligation not to work 'silently', but to stand up openly against the evil and for its cure. If he does not do so then he is a faithless, miserable weakling who fails either from cowardice or from laziness and incompetence....Every last agitator who possesses the courage to defend his opinions with manly forth-rightness, standing on a tavern table among his adversaries, accomplishes more than a thousand of these lying, treacherous sneaks.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Lying, Eye, Men

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• I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Feelings, Done, Want

  Ruth St. Denis (1969). “Ruth St. Denis, an unfinished life: an autobiography”, [Dance Horizons, 1969

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• We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, Car

  "Oracle Of Omaha Says President Obama Must Step Up". Interview with Paul Tharp, www.nypost.com. March 10, 2009.

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• The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

  Euripides

  Men, Bad Man

  Euripides (1832). “Euripides”, p.182

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• There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

  George Eliot

  Men, Air, Deeds

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.422, George Eliot

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• Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

  Philip James Bailey

  Hell, Bearable, Nothingness

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.36

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