“The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.” MenNeedsWellsDoneEvilVoiceWhiteClearCuttingQuietOfficeRaisesMovedPaintCheeksSmoothCollarsDickensDensFingernailsWhite CollarQuiet Man Author:C. S. Lewis
“Evil is a superficial manifestation of a deep disturbance and imbalance in our collective psyche. The only way for us to help heal the wounds is to be sober, sane, quiet, loving, and attentive to each other.” WayHelpingEvilQuietWoundsHealManifestationCollectivesSaneSuperficialSoberDisturbanceImbalance Author:Deepak Chopra
“In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.” ThinkingShouldMindIdeasEvilRoomsFiveBecomingQuietEatingFunctionDrinkingVariousSettingSettingsDesirableEating And DrinkingQuiet Room Author:Dogen
“The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.” StillsLawEvilWaterQuietFaultsEndureSmokeWickedLimes Author:Saint Augustine
“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.” KnowsWayTryingRealMatterOrderEvilFunSidesPowerfulOur LivesQuietStrategyHorribleCompromiseClothingsSilkVelvetChristy Huddleston Author:Catherine Marshall
“Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them. But when very serious evils confronted the American people, they had to go beyond the Congressmen and Senators, and they had to commit civil disobedience and they had even to break the law.” PeopleLawPoliticalEvilLeaderBreakNiceSeriousQuietCommitAmerican HistoryBeing NiceSenatorsDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceCongressmanPolitical Leaders Author:Howard Zinn
“If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.” PeopleIfsWorldFeelsWellsBookHandsMightEvilReadingGreaterQuietSittingFilledLibraryGood BookPledgeNoisyTroublesomeSirensGreater GoodProclaimingSchismSitting Quietly Author:Daniel Handler
“Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.” EvilFireSadnessBuildingHugeTerribleQuietFilledStructureTerrorTerroristFlyingBurningAirplaneSeptemberDisbeliefSeptember 11DespicableUnyieldingSept 11Fire BurningActs Of TerrorRemembrance For 9 11 Author:George W. Bush
“They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.” LongMadeEyeEvilFatherBlackKnownQuietFilledSlaveDeedsAshamedGrandfatherLong AgoIrrelevantBoastPiratePortRoguesGreat GrandfatherOld Money Author:Terry Pratchett
“And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.” WayLittlesEvilSimpleFateQuietExpectedCountrysideGreat OnesFrodo BagginsTwo TowersShire Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume