E Quotes
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“Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.”
Source: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
“Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.”
“Evil draws men together.”
“Evil emerges from the failure to make the right choices rather than any inherent personal quality.”
Source: «Muggles, Monsters and Magicians»: A Literary Analysis of the «Harry Potter» Series
“Evil endured. She knew it did, and Xavier was wholly evil.”
Source: Dark Blood
“Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.”
Source: Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds
“Evil events from evil causes spring.”
Source: The comedies of Aristophanes
“Evil exemplifies the contemptuous transgression and annihilation of virtue.”
Source: Meditations and Exhumations:
“Evil exists because of the disobedience of Satan. God gave Satan, and the angels, and man free will. Satan used his free will and abused it by not obeying authority. Hell was created by Satan’s disobedience to God, and his purposeful removal from God’s love—which is what hell is. Removing yourself from God’s love. You send yourself to hell. God does not send you there.”
“Evil exists... Doesn’t mean God doesn’t”
“Evil exists everywhere. Sometimes I think our limited senses are designed to protect us from awareness of its presence. We trust them to provide us with knowledge but it may be that they block out realization of horrors we cannot bear.”
Source: The Night of the Ripper
“Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated
“Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.”
“Evil exists only as a privation of good, and God withholds or takes away goodness either to redirect of to improve mankind in some way (162)”
Source: Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us
“Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.”
“Evil, far from existing by itself, is nothing other than default, the lapse, the lack, or the absence of goodness. Let us, therefore, seek to fill this void and vacancy wherever we find it by doing good to our fellow men, by dispensing happiness to them.”
Source: Bearing Your Troubles Well: Your Path to Peace in Difficult Times
“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.”
“Evil feelings and impulses are the state of being of the natural (carnal) man, Fallen Adam, and Satan (the unconscious part of the carnal mind).”
Source: And Cush Begat Nimrod
“Evil forges a tornado.
But goodness battles in a straight line.”
“Evil gains work their punishment.”
“Evil generates only more evil. That has always been its chief characteristic.”
Source: The Whisperer
“Evil genius-ness was like that--showy.”
Source: Manners & Mutiny
“Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.”
“Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.”
“Evil grows when good people do and say nothing.”
Source: Marshmallows for breakfast
“Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.”
“Evil had a scent, bitter and pungent, like the scorched earth after a forest fire. I’d been living with the stench long enough to recognize it anywhere.”
Source: Wolf Moon
“Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.”
“Evil happens, thought Harry, it doesn’t mean anything or teach us anything, except to not be evil.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Evil has a way of propagating like a plague. Where plague is a disease of the body, evil is a disease of the soul. It spreads through our actions: an act of evil done to someone infests their soul, so that they desire to do evil in return. And evil grows with each turn, the revenge act must be the greater. The best way to deal with evil is to turn it into something good, before it has the chance to spread. Each of us has the ability to have evil stop with us.
Anonymous. The Treatise of Wisdom (Kindle Locations 4492-4494). Unknown.”
“Evil has always existed. You could never wipe it out.”
Source: A Crystal of Time
“Evil has an ordinary face. It laughs, it cries, it deflects, it rationalizes, it makes great pasta. These [Mafia] killers were people who had crossed an indelible line in human experience by intentionally taking another life. They all constructed their own narrative to explain and justify their own killing. None of them saw themselves as bad people. To a person, they all said the same thing: The first time was really, really hard. After that, not so much.”
Source: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
“Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.”
“Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.”
Source: The Quotable Newman: A Definitive Guide to His Central Thoughts and Ideas
“Evil has only the power we give it.”
“Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.”
“Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is evil just because there is no logical place for it, no room in reality for it. It is unreal, and yet real as something unreal.”
“Evil: if I had encountered it before then it was so well disguised that I saw it
as something else – an old woman walking alone down a track crying; a
distant plume of smoke from a village in the hills; dead-eyed soldiers
stepping down a road in silence – banal details of its hidden tread. Even the
killings I had seen so far seemed no more than the brutish product of the
war’s rationale: men did bad things – it was in their nature. Words like
‘wicked’ and ‘evil’ had a medieval ring to them, a throwback to
superstition and the histrionics of the pulpit. I have no personal God and
mostly feel in no position to judge individual actions as either ‘good’ or
‘evil’. Yet I am certain that what I witnessed at times in Vareš was more
than mere wrongdoing.”
Source: My War Gone By, I Miss It So
“Evil imaginations causes harm to others.
Such things do not dwell in the mind of a righteous person.”
“Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Evil in its best form, disguised as our fellow human possessed by greed, envy, lust, and power, chase me wherever I go. I’m always on the run, hiding desperately in the dark to protect myself.
Silly of me for not realising that the darkness is the thriving kingdom of the villainous monsters.
I run to the meadows, then into a forest, and then into a land of thorny shrubs.
When I run, I regret being a coward, ashamed of being unable to slay the demon chasing me.
I know how I lost a part of me because of its trickery, yet I run, yet I hide in shame with regret for allowing evil to play its trick on me. I regret being the fool.”
Source: FT Legacy 1: Who is Frank Twine?
“Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.”
Source: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
Source: The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)
“Evil infects all of life on this fallen planet; only through death--Christ's death and our own--can we realize a resurrected state that restores us, uniting body and soul.”
Source: Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions
“Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.”
“Evil inhabits the soul of a criminal without being felt there. It is felt in the heart of the man who is afflicted and innocent.”
Source: Waiting for God
“Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.”
Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan
“Evil is a broad church. There are so many different ways to be evil. Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in True Blood. He was pretty angsty about it, but he thought he was doing the right thing.”