Evil Quotes - Page 32

• I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Pain, Hate, Believe

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• Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vanity, Deceit, Degradation

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “The Lives of the Poets: A Selection”, p.219, OUP Oxford

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• This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?

  Anne Rice

  Disappointment, Children, Lying

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.286, Ballantine Books

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• I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it

  Anne Bronte

  Stars, Fall, Thinking

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.56, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

  Henry Ford

  Ignorance, Dark, Seems

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• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

  Hans Kung

  Men, Different, Helpful

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• Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Denial, Succeed, Incredibles

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• Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Secret, Needs, Denial

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• I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

  Steve Earle

  Believe, Men, Good Man

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• There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.

  Christopher X. Brodeur

  Denial, Victim, Perpetrators

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• Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Sight, Bravery

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Graduation, Moving

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• We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Life And Love, Taken, Writing

  Madeleine L'Engle, Library of Congress (1984). “Dare to be Creative!: A Lecture Presented at the Library of Congress, November 16, 1983”, Washington : Library of Congress

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• Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

  Georg Trakl

  Stars, Air, Black

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• Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.

  Bernard Lown

  Real, Men, Essence

  "A Prescription for Hope". The Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.

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• Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope.

  Pope Innocent III

  Judging, May, Pope

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• You get respect in society if you are aggressive. If you fight then people respect you. If you fight back, people like you for that as well. When Ive been beaten up, if Ive been in a pub doing nothing wrong, the fact I chose not to fight back, that I would never throw a punch back, people say Im weak. I dont think thats a weak thing at all. I think why should I descend to their level? If Ive done nothing wrong, throwing a punch back makes me as bad and corrupt as them. As evil as them, as stupid as them.

  Richey Edwards

  Stupid, Fighting, Thinking

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• Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?

  Horace Bushnell

  Sacrifice, Order, Broken

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 70), 1895.

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• I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Teenager, Drinking, Car

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• Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?

  John Steakley

  Reading, Tea Leaves, Astrology

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• Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Selfishness, Traits, Ifs

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• There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime.

  Jenna Jameson

  Light, Choices, Decision

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• The Christian soldier must avoid two evils - he must not faint or yield in the time of fight, and after a victory he must not wax insolent and secure. When he has overcome, he is so to behave himself as though he were presently again to be assaulted. For Satan’s temptations like the waves of the sea, do follow one in the neck of the other

  George Downame

  Christian, Fighting, Two

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• The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

  Charles A. Reich

  Competition, Abuse, Causes

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

  Charles A. Reich

  Misuse, Existence

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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