E Quotes
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“Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. That’s what they say, right?”
Source: Vox
“Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.”
“Evil triumphs when good men refuse to call it evil”
“Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence, and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods.”
Source: Red Country
“Evil twists good. It stalks good until the very end for its most effective deceptions.”
“Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.”
Source: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal
“Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.”
Source: The Infernals
“Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.”
Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd
“Evil was defined as the use of power to destroy the spiritual growth of others for the purpose of defending and preserving the integrity of our own sick selves. In short, it is scapegoating. We scapegoat not the strong but the weak. For the evil to so misuse their power, they must have the power to use in the first place. They must have some kind of dominion over their victims. The most common relationship of dominion is that of parent over child. Children are weak, defenseless, and trapped in relation to their parents. They are born in thrall to their parents ... They are simply not free or powerful enough to escape.”
“Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.”
Source: Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
“Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.”
Source: Bone Man's Daughters
“Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.”
Source: Gates of Paradise: Number 7 in series
“Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Evil Whispers - what you do after the whisper determines your sin or victory”
“Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.”
“Evil will have unleashed the fullness of itself at the point that it becomes convinced that it is not evil.”
“Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.”
“Evil will never find a place where the manifestation of itself will not raise up a greater good. And to be that ‘greater good’ is the manifestation of our greatest self.”
“Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace”
Source: Vampire Diaries: The First Bite 4-Book Collection: The Awakening, The Struggle, The Fury, Dark Reunion
“Evil will win if good people do nothing.”
“Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Evil, with its one character, stands opposite and against of the God, humans, and virtue, in each religion.”
“Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.”
Source: Monarchs and Mendicants
“Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.”
Source: By the Sword
“Evil works, we realise, by sapping the will with over-complication.”
Source: The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
“Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline: A Novel
“Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.”
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
“Evil's lurking, I can see him smirking.”
“Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.”
“Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“Evil, be thou my good.”
“Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.”
“Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite”
“Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.”
Source: My Quest for Beauty
“Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous”
“Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still”
“Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.”
Source: The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth
“Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred?”
“Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves.”
“Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake”
“Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Evils draw men together.”
Source: Rhetoric
“Evils have their comfort, good none can support.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think
“Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.”
Source: The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated: Being a Reprint of [his] Essay,
“Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.”
Source: The American Crisis
“Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.”
Source: The God Delusion
“Evimdeki mutsuzluğumla mutluyum.”
Source: Yalnızlaşan İnsan