It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

…So little knowsAny but God alone to value rightThe good before him but perverts best thingsTo worst abuse or to their meanest use.

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

I feel I could kill. I feel that I might like it. And I know that this should scare me. But it doesn’t. It excites me. I am in Plato’s cave, watching the shadows and...

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

Life is not a matter for simple optimism–for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism–for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.

Kira is evil … There’s no denying that … But lately I’ve been starting to think of it more like this … The real evil is the power to kill people. Someone who finds himself...

An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.

I believe in the devil, in the Powers of Darkness, Lawford, as firmly as I believe he and they are powerless – in the long run. They – what shall we say? – have surrendered...

There are evil people, and I don’t even want to hear those guys speak.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions… Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

A hero stands up to the villain in themselves.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the concrete of the gas chamber. I have seen that it is not man who is impotent...

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

Why could Tolkien not be more like Sir Thomas Malory, asked [Edwin] Muir, in the third Observer review of those cited above, and give us heroes and heroines like Lancelot and Guinevere, who ‘ knew...

Virtue is not a solitary, uncomplicated thing.” Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked. “Virtues may be made to serve whatever end profits you. Still, they exist...

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes,...

I left the warehouse at 8.00am. I don’t believe in 8.00am. It exists, though. 8.00am is incontrovertible evidence that evil dwells in the world.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is...

Those who turn their faces away from the True Guru, are seen to be unfaithful and evil.They shall be bound and beaten night and day; they shall not have this opportunity again.

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do not believe in a god, who do they believe gives the Universal Law...

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

I? This is the very root of all evil.

Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too...

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.

the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons

I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance away, an unknown world of goodness. Often Isa had said to me: ‘You, who see...

In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it’s evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.

You can’t protect the world from itself, Gina. You can only give good men the tools necessary to do their jobs. We need to know what is possible.

It is not good practice to become intrigued by Satan and his mysteries. No good can come from getting close to evil.

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one...

Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead.

How do evil people find the strength to do good?

Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.

He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and at the same time seeing too clearly the evil and falsity...

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. There is no natural connection between strong impulses and a weak conscience. The natural connection is...

There’s a point at which when I start to know a man well–this isn’t true of women–I wonder whether there’s something in him that’s evil. Something that’s pure and can’t be touched. This quality of...

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided

Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn’t contribute to either, the good or evil.

I have done so many things in my life,” she said to the mirror. “Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully…was I wrong?

True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound...

In the absence of light, only darkness is left.

Favorite Quotations.I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.The worth of a book is measured by what you carry away from it. It’s not over till it’s over. Imagination is everything. All...

Anything that isn’t opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn’t matter.