E Quotes
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“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.”
Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches
“Evil is predicable; Good is paradoxical.”
“Evil is present to cleverly disguise itself as good. Evil is present to control and deceive us.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Evil is real - and powerful. It has to be fought, not explained away, not fled. And God is against evil all the way. So each of us has to decide where we stand, how we're going to live our lives. We can try to persuade ourselves and wink at evil. We can say that it isn't so bad after all, maybe even try to call it fun by clothing it in silks and velvets. We can compromise with it, keep quiet about it , and say it's none of our business. Or we can work on God's side, listen for His orders on strategy against the evil, no matter how horrible it is, and know that He can transform it.”
“Evil is real - but so is God's power and love.”
“Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.”
“Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.”
Source: The Black Company: The First Novel of 'The Chronicles of The Black Company'
“Evil is retarted.”
“Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.”
Source: Table-talk
“Evil is root of envy.”
“Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.”
Source: The Octopus
“Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.”
“Evil is simply
a grammatical error:
a failure to leap
the precipice
between "he"
and "I.”
“Evil is simply a hard truth, a fact we must face from time to time both in human form and on the Ethereal Plane. Its power comes not from any real source as light does, but rather from a fall into emptiness, a hopeless despair perpetuated over and over again by the judges of Earth.”
Source: The Angel's Guide to Taking Human Form
“Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.”
“Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm”
“Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.”
“Evil is termed as sin because it has the power to attract the mind. It acts upon our mind and heart to do what nature desires, even when such acts are prohibited by the laws of society. We feel guilty doing things that nature has designed as perfectly natural.”
Source: The Secret Red Book of Leadership
“Evil is that which one believes of others.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Evil is the absence of good, not the defeat of it.”
“Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.”
Source: Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)
“Evil is the illness that has prevented humanity from reaching its true potential.”
Source: The List Keepers
“Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.”
“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”
“Evil is the most difficult problem in the world. It is also the strongest objection to God’s existence. If God does exist, it is also the most problematic challenge to his nature and power. As a Christian, it is my greatest temptation for doubt and unbelief.”
Source: Clear Minds & Dirty Feet: A Reason To Hope, A Message To Share
“Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.”
“Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.”
“Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.”
“Evil is the rule. Good is the exception.”
Source: Il Cacciatore del buio
“Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.”
“Evil is the son of ungratefulness”
“Evil is the soul’s choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation, or hell, is the permanent choice of the not-God. God does not (in the monstrous old-fashioned phrase) “send” anybody to hell; hell is that state of the soul in which its choice becomes obdurate and fixed; the punishment (so to call it) of that soul is to remain eternally in the state that it has chosen.”
“Evil is the starry sky of the Good.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.”
“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.”
Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias
“Evil is there, out there and in your faces! You have two choices, either run or fight! To run is to die a coward! To fight is to win!”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that there cannot be a God. They are forgetting that, if there were no God, they would have no way of distinguishing evil from goodness. The very concept of evil admits and recognizes a Standard, a Whole, a Rule, an Order. Nobody would say that his automobile was out of order if he did not have a conception of how an automobile ought to run.”
“Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.”
“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”
“Evil is whatever distracts.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Evil is, good or truth misplaced.”
“Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world”
Source: Juliette
“Evil isn't always repulsive. Quite the contrary, it often hides behind masks of beauty and societal acceptance. Modern-day monsters adorned with attractive faces, impeccable hair, prestigious careers, sprawling families, and nice Sunday lunches. They reside in our neighbourhoods, sleep in our beds, and even exist within our own families. Such insidious evil makes it increasingly challenging to discern truth from deceit.”
Source: Their Monstrous Hearts
“Evil isn't born, Dearie. It's made.”
“Evil isn't born...Neither is purity. Because even as newborns, there is something wrong inside of all of us bound to spring up and activate itself within us.”
“Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.”
“Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about that. Not really,' Bear shook his head. 'If the good's there, and you look for it, you'll see it in some way.' 'I think Bear is right,' Rose said decidedly. 'Fairy tales teach you that. No one who's really good ever stays ugly. It's always a disguise.”
“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
“Evil itself is a dictator, whether it’s dressed up like a pompous little man with a moustache, or a bunch of faceless terrorists, or a fundamentalist state. That’s what the devil is, you know. And it’s precious difficult to combat. Or rather, it’s not so much difficult, as demanding of great courage. Will, and wit.”
Source: The Printer's Devil