Evil Quotes - Page 29

• Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.

  Bill Watterson

  Believe, Men, Temptation

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

  Mark Twain

  Temptation, Erring, Way

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• I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Selfish, Thinking, Temptation

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The evil always comes from details.

  Henning Mankell

  Details

  "The Man from Beijing". Book by Henning Mankell, 2008.

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• Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Definitions, Good And Evil

  Anton Szandor LaVey (1998). “Satan Speaks!”, p.37, Feral House

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• In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Judging, Important, Meaning Of Life

  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy ch. 1 (1942)

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• Of two evils we must always choose the least.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Two, Two Evils

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• I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.

  Gordon Parks

  Beautiful, Gun, Knives

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• Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

  John Philpot Curran

  Men, Good Man

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• But if you close your eyes and listen to Palin and her most irate supporters constantly squawk or bellyache or tweet about how unfair a ride she gets from evil mustache-twirling elites and RINO saboteurs, she sounds like a professional victimologist, the flip side of any lefty grievance group leader. She’s becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska edition. The only difference being, she wears naughty-librarian glasses instead of a James Brown ‘do.

  Matt Labash

  Eye, Naughty, Differences

  "Palin 'becoming Al Sharpton'?". www.politico.com. 2012.

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• It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution.

  Daniel Pipes

  Mistake, Islam, Blame

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• Thank God for 9/11. Thank God that, five years ago, the wrath of God was poured out upon this evil nation. America, land of the sodomite damned. We thank thee, Lord God Almighty, for answering the prayers of those that are under the altar.

  Fred Phelps

  Prayer, Wrath, Years

  "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.

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• Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins!

  Fred Phelps

  America, Vengeance, Sin

  "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.

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• God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of [the Virginia Tech massacre] is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.

  Fred Phelps

  America, Church, Baptists

  "Virginia Tech Massacre: God's Wrath". WBC Video News, April 23, 2007.

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• It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth.

  Steven Biko

  Country, Pride, Men

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• Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

  Steven Biko

  Majority, Arrogant, Assumption

  "I Write What I Like (We Blacks)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

  Juvenal

  Umpires, Vices, Worst

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• Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.

  David Sarnoff

  Life, Men, Brooding

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• Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone

  Denise Mina

  Attitude, Animal, People

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• To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.

  Matt Taibbi

  Betrayed, Hollywood, Agents

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• Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Definitions, Perceive, Values

  "On Aggression".

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• Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Environment, Twisted

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• It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Support, Way

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• The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Memories, Holocaust, West

  Philip Gourevitch (2015). “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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• The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the degenerate- each and all are radically perfect manifestations of Spirit precisely as they are. There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

  Ken Wilber

  Dust, Perfect, Realization

  Ken Wilber (2001). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, p.290, Shambhala Publications

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