Evil Quotes
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The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply not revealed to us. Rather, in the moment of the cross, it becomes clear that evil is utterly subverted for good.... If God can take the greatest of evils and turn them for the greatest of goods, then how much more can he take the lesser evils which litter human history, from individual tragedies to international disasters, and turn them to his good purpose as well.
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And empty words are evil.
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The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.
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Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.
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And out of good still to find means of evil.
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The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.
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I did not want to depict Al Gashey as evil. I wanted him to come across as someone who did what he did for reasons that were compelling. Whether or not we agree with him is a different matter.
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It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.
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My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.
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Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!
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Evil news fly faster still than good.
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Evil to some is always good to others...
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For me, 'Evil Urges' was like a video game. If you play 'Super Mario Brothers,' there's a level where it's like a snowscape, and then there's a level where it's a desert and a level that's like a jungle.
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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.
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I renounce all satanic assignments that are directed toward me and my ministry, and I cancel every curse that Satan and his workers have put on me. ... I reject all other blood sacrifices whereby Satan may claim ownership of me.
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It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.
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If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
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You see how good and evil are twisted together? Like a golden dragon bracelet snaking brightly about a person's arm.
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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
