Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the...

It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of...

You take evil for good. It’s a passing crisis. It’s the result of your illness, perhaps.- You do despise me! It’s simply that I don’t want to do good, I want to do evil, and...

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a...

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

Indifference is a well that never runs dry, and as good a word for evil as was ever composed.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous...

In a war between evils, only evil wins.

You must be a light unto yourself.

He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children’s story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which...

Touch not the fighting-dog without a glove.Give me a fighting-dog and I come alive.Fighting-dogs always meant more to Tom Mitchell than people.

Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the astonishing naivety which decreed that America as a whole was a pure, innocent victim, so that the world could be...

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my...

I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.

I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It’s like coffee. Once it’s roasted,...

Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will never be definitively established in this world. Anyone who promises the better world that is guaranteed to last...

Remember, I am always 12 steps ahead..

Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.

Let us dedicate this new era to mothers around the world, and also to the mother of all mothers — Mother Earth. It is up to us to keep building bridges to bring the world...

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.Rose of Life

normal,” sane men and women are capable of evil, then the atrocities perpetrated during the Holocaust and other genocides could be repeated today and into the future.Yet, this is exactly the lesson we must learn...

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Well, no one says you can be happy about everything,” I said. “I know I should be glad for you, Megan, but frankly I think you’re crazy. And if Reverend Marshall is making you this...

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

The seeds of salvation are buried in every act of evil.

If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that the unfortunate thing about life is that everything’s mixed. There’s no absolute good and there’s no absolute evil. There’s just a lot of confusion.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

The notion that evil is non-rational is a more significant claim for Eagleton than at first appears, because he is (in this book [On Evil] as in others of his recent ‘late period’ prolific burst)...

Evil can be undone, but it cannot “develop” into good

Evil requires no reason.

I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me – that’s...

Is there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world?

The difficulties of life do not have to be unbearable. It is the way we look at them – through faith or unbelief – that makes them seem so. We must be convinced that our...

Evil” is an inverted anagram of “live.” As we live our life, learn to tame our own private demons and conquer evil with a good, pure, humble, courageous, patient heart.

Evan no longer tells people I fight bad guys for a living. When asked, he tells his friends that his dad talks on the phone a lot and vacuums on occasion.

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it – I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and...

A CHEAP AND EVIL GIRL

The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her child if someone were to harm it. There is something wrong if the...

We have seen / Good men made evil wrangling with the evil, / Straight minds grown crooked fighting crooked minds. / Our peace betrayed us; we betrayed our peace. / Look at it well. This...

The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not...

I already did.

It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black...

…it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.