Evil Quotes
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."
"People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of."
"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil."
"Well, that's an evil smile..."
"Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more."
"I want to protect innocent people from sin by locking them in cages, where the evil can't get to them."
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
"Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty."
"Looks like what drives me crazyDon't have no effect on you--But I'm gonna keep on at itTill it drives you crazy, too."
"Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all."
"I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none."
"You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me."
"People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction."
"It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul."
"Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends."
"When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad."
"There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey."
"In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it"
"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance."
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."
"The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones."
"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."
"Don’t be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn’t allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you."
"All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word."
"God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials."
"There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group."
"We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better."
"The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell."
"WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE."
"Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?"
"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth."
"Isn't wine prohibited here?"the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil,"said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is."
"War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war."
"Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them."
"Patti told me that to truly love someone ,you must hold them in a open hand.That was how I needed to love Kai. It was necessary to uncurl my fingers and let him go"
"There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... The Holy Spirit of God is the Comforter..."
"While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil."
"wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good."
"If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones."
"If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act."
"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."
"Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?"
"As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else."
"One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her — is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions."
"Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself."
"Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world."
"Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base..."
"The season of evil,"I echoed. "Protect your soul."
"quote from Chase the Moon- Some people are just downright wicked, and sometimes evil wins - but not always."
"Evil surrounding can destroy a Good soul."
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