Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Sometimes what you think is true, what you think is safe and good, is actually evil in disguise. Evil is so enticing, so deceiving, that you don’t know its evil until it’s wrapped you up and caressed you as a lover. You gaze into its eyes, enraptured by the pretty words whispers softly in your...

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

Believe that you are someone worth saving.

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that’s an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.

Yet I think the demon’s target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think—I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without...

The beauty of the human race is not in its victory over evil, but the attempt.

I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the other faces in the club and the deep anxiety they betrayed to me, an anxiety that was not of the natural, existential sort but one that was caused by peculiar concerns of an uncanny nature. What...

I once had a published written debate with a religious apologist who, after I had argued the standard line that the idea of a loving and merciful deity is inconsistent with the fact of natural evil, said this meant his god was not all-powerful, and therefore was not to blame because it could not stop...

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is...

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one’s heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

I have often wished in vain,’ said she, ‘for another’s judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.”That,’ replied I, ‘is...

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

He has seen enough of daily evil to be thankful for small goods that come his way.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.

…And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes...

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic, to be bad at second-guessing the good.

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.

The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it’s because you choose to.

I want to protect innocent people from sin by locking them in cages, where the evil can’t get to them.

Kötü, hemen hemen her defasında, niçin ‘iyi’den daha güçlü olarak ortaya çıkıyor ?

The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were no God. Before there can be a hole in a uniform, there must be a uniform; before there is death, there must be life; before there is error, there must be truth; before...

In every man, of course, a demon lies hidden-the demon of rage, the demon of lustful heat at the screams of the tortured victim, the demon of lawlessness let off the chain

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.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

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Rape is not an extraordinary or evil act for an assailant. It is like forcing someone to eat when she is not hungry.

The road to hell is paved with careful planning.

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.

It’s always the lesser of two evils.”I don’t see why there have to be any evils at all.’-Connor

I wyszedłeś, jasny synku, z czarną bronią w noc,i poczułeś, jak się czai w dźwięku minut – zło.Zanim padłeś, jeszcze ziemię przeżegnałeś ręką.Czy to była kula, synku, czy to serce pękło?

Within biblical theology it remains the case that the one living God created a world that is other than himself, not contained within himself. Creation was from the beginning an act of love, of affirming goodness of the other. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good; but it was not...

When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn’t giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which you’re growing, but was to conceal the root from the eyes of people that will dare to uproot it.

God could learn a little about love and morality from us. If there’s anyone who needs redemption, it’s God.

A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

..it happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into another. Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage, and in accepting a less evil as a good.

People thought we were evil or satanic rockers.

Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil. Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie.

In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically, and convinced himself that Saddam was fundamentally Adolf Hitler reborn. I think his feelings towards Saddam were in fact quite genuine and quite legitimately hostile. He was not play acting.

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit...

My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the present. Let it not overcome me, my God. Let not flesh and blood conquer me. Let not the world and...

We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We feel an even deeper pleasure letting everyone know of this fact. This feeling is EVIL. Learn to see it in yourself, and then learn to be horrified by how thoroughly it can poison...