“Whoever has the power to label others as evil is automatically, or reflexively, the good person. Good people label bad people as evil. And once you do that, then it demonizes them. You don't negotiate with evil. You don't sit down at the table with the devil and say, "Okay, let's work this out." What you want to do is destroy evil. Every Catholic kid every night says, or should say, "Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil." And so you've got to go to God to help you deal with evil rather than your State Department or your negotiators.” PeopleWantShouldPersonsStatesHelpingKidsNightEvilDealsDevilOkayCatholicTablesWhat You WantTemptationLabelsDepartmentGood PeopleEvery NightGood PersonBad People Author:Philip Zimbardo
“As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay!” IfsTryingProblemReligionChoicesEvilFearOkayAtheistScaredBe GoodRationalize Author:Billy Joel
“What intrigues me is that people kind of naturally want to label or pigeonhole the characters. They want to make it easy for themselves to go, "All right. There's the good guy, there's the bad guy, there's the girl. Okay, I get it now." But life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both. So any time the hero does something I'm not crazy about, or the bad guy does something I can relate to, I'll find it more interesting.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantKindDoeI CanCharacterGuyGirlEvilEasyInterestingCrazyHeroCapableOkayLabelsRelateDividedVersusIntrigueBad GuysGood Guy Author:Alexander Skarsgard
“I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.” LawEvilOkayBad ThingsPotJustifiedHeroinBreaking The Law Author:George Jung
“Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to choose not to try.” WorldTryingLawEvilOkayProofSubmissionIn-laws Author:Carolyn Hax
“I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.” WorldHumansRealityChristianEvilNamesSinChristianityConditionsOkayAcknowledgeAddressesTelling The TruthHuman ConditionNot Okay Book:Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
“We're supposed to forget whatever happened in the past because 9/11 is where history begins. Okay, since 2001, how many wars have been started, how many countries have been destroyed? So now ISIS is the new evil - but how did that evil begin? Is it more evil to do what ISIS is doing, which is to go around massacring people - mainly, but not only, Shi'a - slitting throats? By the way, the US-backed militias are doing similar things, except they don't show beheadings of white folks on TV.” PeopleWayHas BeensWarCountryShowsPastEvilWhiteForgetHappenedTvsOkayFolksDestroyedThroatIsisMilitia Author:Arundhati Roy
“[Dario Argento] speaks very broken English - he's Italian, so I'm going to do a very bad Italian impersonation - but he asked me my name, and I told him, and he goes, "Walk across the room." He looked at me, and he said, "Do you want to be in my movie [Two Evil Eyes]?" I was, like, "Yeah! Yeah, I do!"He goes, "Okay! You play Betty!" And I was, like, "Oh, I'm playing an extra named Betty! Great!" So we walked out, thinking that I was playing an extra named Betty, no lines, just background.” ThinkingWantSaidTwoPlayEyeEvilNamesSpeakLinesWalksRoomsBrokenOkayYeahBackgroundsExtrasItalianTwo EvilsEvil EyeBroken English Author:Julie Benz
“[Dario Argento] would yell at you in Italian, and I'd have no idea what he was saying. I'd just go, "Okay!". But it was a really great experience [filming Two Evil Eyes ].” TwoIdeasEyeEvilOkayNo IdeaItalianReally GreatGreat ExperiencesTwo EvilsEvil Eye Author:Julie Benz
“Vladimir Putin hates America, he wants to hurt us. Suddenly Vladimir Putin is a good guy, Russia is okay, no it's not. Russia is evil, Russia is our enemy.” GuyHateEvilHurtEnemyOkayGood Guy Author:Ralph Peters
“One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.” PeopleEndsPhilosophyOrderTurnsEvilEffectsEconomicsOkayGuiltProfoundJustifyEconomistGuilt Free Author:Jane Smiley
“She knew it should bother her more, being evil and all, but after she put on a little mascara and some lipstick and poured herself another cup of blood-laced coffee, she found that she was okay with it.” ShouldLittlesEvilFoundBloodOkayCoffeeCupsBotherLipstickMascara Book:You Suck Source: You Suck
“Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, “All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle."” DoeSaidMatterEvilParentWaterSleepFeetFineBedRedOkayIncreaseParentingTeaShirtsToysIdleOrangeJohnsonShortsSeverityGood ParentingRed Shirt Author:Gretchen Rubin