Evil Quotes - Page 34

• He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Fall, Example, Contrary

  "Storia d' Italia". Book by Francesco Guicciardini, 1561.

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• A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

  Carolyn Wells

  Criticism, Necessary Evil, Critics

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• How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Pain, Passion, Character

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Disaster, Commencement, Rejoice

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.15

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• It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other's depravity we'd be more united, we'd be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I'll assume you're hiding a million. And I'll keep you at a distance. I'm not afraid of the evil in you. It's in me too.

  Donald Miller

  Distance, Two, People

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• Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

  Alain de Botton

  Revenge, Intelligent, True Evil

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2012

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• For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

  Saint Augustine

  Doubt, Doe, Easy

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• Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Men, Affliction, Murmuring

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.58, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'

  A. E. Waite

  Practice, Confusion, Use

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• J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Past, Men, Good Man

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• Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

  Randy Alcorn

  Jesus, Miracle, Redemption

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.89, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn’t a faith worth keeping.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, People, Suffering

  Randy Alcorn (2010). “If God Is Good Study Guide: Companion to If God Is Good”, p.17, Multnomah

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• Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something.

  Zach Braff

  Men, Israel, America

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• A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it back to them? I don't think it should be considered 'racist' to admit maybe ending apartheid did more harm than good in South Africa.

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, People, Colonialism

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

  Amit Abraham

  Two, Mind, Desire

  New Dawn Press, Incorporated, Amit Abraham (2004). “Personality Development Through Positive Thinking”, p.9, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.

  Gerald Durrell

  Humble, Butterfly, Eye

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• In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.

  Emil Fackenheim

  Men, Tragedy, Sake

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• The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Faith, Wisdom, Religious

  "Arpilei Tohar" by Abraham Isaac Kook, (p. 2), 1914.

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• As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.

  Jason Stearns

  Regimes, Interest, Greater Good

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• This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death.  The perfect man - governed by God, his perfect Principle - is sinless and eternal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Christian, Men, Perfect

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.367, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Claims, Ifs

  "The dark side of religion". Essay by Morris Raphael Cohen published in "Religion from Tolstoy to Camus" edited by Walter Kaufmann (p. 294), 1964.

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• If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Trying, Relax

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot Interview, news.slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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• Do not be angry with people who are weak. That is the mark of a coward. There are plenty of things to be angry about in the world--people wielding political or religious authority who have been blinded by money, for example! That is the kind of evil young people should direct their rage at. Be angry about that, and you'll never lose your temper about trifling matters.

  Josei Toda

  Religious, People, Political

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• It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and damnation. There can only be one predestination to salvation. In and through Jesus Christ all people are predestined to be saved. Our free choice is ruled out in this regard. God wants free people, except in relation to this last and definitive decision. We are not free to decide and choose to be damned.

  Jacques Ellul

  Jesus, Son, Should Have

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• We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

  Tzvetan Todorov

  Struggle, Fighting, Names

  "Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century". Book by Tzvetan Todorov, 2003.

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