Evil Quotes - Page 40

• War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.

  C. E. M. Joad

  War, Men, Position Of Power

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• The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Would Be, Rooms

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• We can overcome evil with greater good.

  Laura Bush

  Overcoming, Greater Good, Greater

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• Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Knowing, Affliction

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.907, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

  William Penn

  Overcoming, Guilty, Innocent

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.73

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• Evil feeds off a source of apathy, weak in the mind, and of course you have to be. Less than a man, more like a thing, no knowledge you're nothing, knowledge is king.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Song, Kings, Men

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• Lost in Static 18
  And the storm is closing in now
  Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living hell
  You're a prisoner of the dark sky
  The propeller blades are still
  And the evil eye of the hurricane's
  Coming in now for the kill

  Mike Oldfield

  Song, Eye, Dark

  Song: Five Miles Out

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• We desperately need to understand something of the magnitude of sin, of evil, and of gross wickedness in this world if we are to appreciate our redemption. God's love, grace, and mercy shine all the brighter against the awful reality of evil. Indeed, the very existence of evil is a powerful proof of God's existence and holiness.

  Dave Hunt

  Powerful, Reality, Grace And Mercy

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• God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

  Garrett Fort

  Soul, Mind, Glitter

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• I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Two, Unions

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.363

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• Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.

  Tony Evans

  Men, Champion, Church

  Tony Evans (2012). “Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream”, p.7, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Children, Animal, Boys

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.531, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Emotion

  Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood, and Jesus' words in Luke 11: 13 assume that we know we are evil.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Hate, Heart

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• In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

  David Platt

  Heart, Law, Rebel

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.34, Multnomah

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• Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Heartbroken, War, Winning

  "Farhadi Talks Oscar Front-Runner A Separation; Divorce Drama Questions Iran’s Future". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 30, 2011.

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• Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.

  Laozi

  Speak No Evil, Feel Good, Party Hard

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• What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spring, Power, Weakness

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.

  Posidonius

  Men, Riches, Causes

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• Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Good Life, Men, Worry

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• It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Hands, Long, Forever

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1930). “Don Quixote of La Mancha”

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• When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Mind, Way

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “To the Girls and Boys: Being the Delightful, Little-known Letters of Thomas Jefferson to and from His Children and Grandchildren”

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• Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

  Wladyslaw Szpilman

  Holocaust, Humanity, Earth

  Wladyslaw Szpilman (2000). “The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945”, p.177, Picador

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• Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them and to do them honour simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I would commend the Jews. And if this is not enough, let him tell the Jews to use his mouth as a privy, or else crawl into the Jew's hind parts, and there worship the holy thing, so as afterwards to be able to boast of having been merciful, and of having helped the Devil and his progeny to blaspheme our dear Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Worst Enemy, Order, Dear Lord

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