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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

There is only one good — knowledge; and only one evil — ignorance.

It’s our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.

Walpurgis Night, when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad – when the graves were opened and the dead came forth and walked. When all evil things of earth and...

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don’t think Fortune has anything to do with it?

We’re never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

All of nature, therefore, is good, since the Creator of all nature is supremely good. But nature is not supremely and immutably good as is the Creator of it. Thus the good in created things...

The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?

Hasira ni Shetani. Hekima ni Mungu. Kila kitu kimo ndani yetu. Hasira imo ndani yetu. Hekima imo ndani yetu. Atomu ni matofali ya ujenzi wa kila kitu ulimwenguni likiwemo jua na miili ya wanadamu. Ndani...

In adults who commit serious and heinous crimes, we see some psychopaths who are evil people with evil intent and actually enjoy a degree of pleasure from committing serious crimes, … We don’t see this...

Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

Evil itself is a dictator, whether it’s dressed up like a pompous little man with a moustache, or a bunch of faceless terrorists, or a fundamentalist state. That’s what the devil is, you know. And...

…all the evils of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings.

The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil… my next The Opposite Of Magic.

We can’t play God.We can’t do this to kids.You’re evil, I’m evil.Everyone will die.No matter what.Let nature win.

The real thing about evil,” said the Witch at the doorway, “isn’t any of what you said. You figure out one side of it – the human side, say – and the eternal side goes...

And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.

Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.

Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind faith. (Dawkins says) ‘Scientific belief is based on publicly checkable evidence, religious faith not only lacks evidence,...

Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against...

The power of evil was nothing more than a tangible thing, something that given the strength of will, could be broken as easily as glass.

Your head is filling up…

Boy, you’re good at figuring things out. Isn’t he? Except that if anybody’s the devil in this room it’s _you_, buster.” An extraordinary bitterness came into his face. “I’ve seen you before. I know you,...

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. And as, every time that she indulged in it, pleasure came to...

There’s a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.

Don’t regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They’re just names for sides. We know that.

[“F]or it’s not possible,” [Socrates] said, “for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human beings come about in the same way. For hatred of human beings...

Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn’t turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.

My ‘morals’ were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time of graduation I was still a ‘believer’ in orthodox religion, but had strong...

My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our...

Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.

Triviality is evil – triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly...

One thing I love about life and God: the creator of life.Within a blink of an eye; things can change either good or bad. It depends on how you want it.Good in the sense that...

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.

the Berlin Wall came down, the Evil Empire collapsed, and the cause of liberty prevailed in the world.

Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.

But evil is always illusion. It insists on the lie that we can have something for ourselves. This is the sole principle at work in hell. Lucifer chose to believe it; or, since it is...

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it.

I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don’t, and you always do, and that makes you evil.

To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.