Evil Quotes - Page 39

• For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Roots, People, Doers

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• I came into the world charged with the duty to uphold the right in every place, to destroy sin and evil... the only reason I took birth was to see that righteousness may flourish, that good may live, and tyrants be torn out by their roots.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Tyrants, Roots, World

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• Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.

  Charles Loring Brace

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  "The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them".

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• Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Kindness, Justice, Magic

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge our death.

  Jacques de Molay

  Gods Will

  "Curse of the Templars" by Jamie Seidel, www.dailytelegraph.com.au. March 14, 2014.

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• Do we really think that the United States will have the protection of innocent Afghans in mind if it rains terror down on the Afghan infrastructure? We are supposedly fighting them because they immorally killed innocent civilians. That made them evil. If we do the same, are we any less immoral?

  George Lakoff

  Rain, Fighting, Thinking

  "Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate - The Essential Guide for Progressives". Book by George Lakoff, 2004.

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• It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome...was a monogamic nation and the numerous evils attending that system early laid the foundation for that ruin which eventually overtook her.

  George Q. Cannon

  Rome, Records, Ruins

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• There just isn’t a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There’s just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon. But like all big-talker shows that bring their heavy cargo in for a rough and breathlessly observed landing, 'Breaking Bad' didn’t quite leave itself enough runway to satisfactorily end some of its better story lines, especially once the chronology gap closed up between the flash-forwards from last year’s episodes and Sunday night’s conclusion. One could easily argue that there was just too much left to do in this one episode.

  Hank Stuever

  Sunday, Night, Years

  " TV ‘Breaking Bad’ finale: What happened to Walt — and to us" by Hank Stuever, www.washingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

  Grace Metalious

  Hate, War, Men

  Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.281, UPNE

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• There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

  Multatuli

  Heart, Sin, Crime

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• Put very simply, Satan's power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates. There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan's writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?

  Watchman Nee

  Letting Go, Running, Men

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Love Not the World: A Prophetic Call to Holy Living”, p.82, CLC Publications

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• He answered, "The woman whom You gave to be with me" (Gen 3:9-12), he did not say, "the woman deceived me," but "The woman whom You gave to me," as if he wanted to say: "This catastrophe has come upon me because of You." So it is, brethren, since Man is not accustomed to blame himself. He does not hesitate to consider even God as the cause of evil.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Humility, Men, Doe

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• Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Life, Two, Chosen

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

  Morgan Brittany

  Twilight, Character, Careers

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• I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.

  Jon Fishman

  Attitude, Fighting, Thinking

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• Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Nihilism, Deeds, Recognition

  Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• If you want to scare people, you talk about evil.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Nihilism, Scare

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei Masakazu (2015). “Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force”, p.128, Routledge

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• The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

  Thomas Malthus

  Temptation, Virtue, Ordeals

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.6, University of Michigan Press

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• I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

  Daniel Okrent

  Wmd, Journalism

  "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview With Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

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• Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.

  Desmond Green

  Breathing, Roots, Soul

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• There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

  Clarence Darrow

  Errors, Soul

  Clarence Darrow (1974). “A Persian pearl, and other essays”

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• There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.

  Robert Browning

  Broken, Perfect, Silence

  'Abt Vogler' (1864) st. 9

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• I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

  Khalil Gibran

  Writing, Learning, Men

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• I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Writing, Ideas, Creative

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• In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Integrity, Justice

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, www.believermag.com. 1973.

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