The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens,...

Tal vez todos los libros se escriben sólo porque los malos juegan con ventaja y eso es insoportable.

They’re power-hungry, the mundane said of the magical people. They’re immoral, people said, and they’re scary. Playing with the dark arts could plunge me into evil. I’d be pulled toward depravity. Blasphemy would begin to...

That’s why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? … They are Evil.

The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.

I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.

God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his...

Notorious Lucifer, King of Hell, claimed to know love again.

There’s more to people than some defined label,” said Arcie. “There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than law or disorders or fence-sittin. There’s prejudice, whimsey, affection, superstition, habit, upbringing, alliance,...

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world – stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death – and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen...

When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that...

What is it about money that makes people kill for it? I’ll have to think about that next time I do it.

For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.

The bad things don’t seem to happen to bad people.’That’s because they already did. There’s no original evil left in the world.

Water is so friendly when you have it on your palms, but so evil when they have you on theirs.

I just have a serious problem with business for business’ sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

You answer to none but the whim of your own black heart.

Your whole life, you are told what is right and what is wrong. What you should do and what you should not do. What makes a good citizen and what makes a traitorous one. What...

The overwhelming tendency of markets is to bring people together, break down prejudices, persuade people of the need to cooperate regardless of class, race, religion, sex/gender, and physical ability. The same is obviously and especially...

Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural world rather than the God who made them. The result is that the...

Because one thing God gave us—and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much—is free will. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose...

One of the biggest difficulties in our contemporary society is that we try to locate the evil in somebody else and then we try to get rid of him. The police are pigs or the...

God wants us to worry about our sins before we sin; the devil wants us to worry after we sin. God wants us to feel free after we repent (for we really are free then);...

Speak of evil, and you summon it.

Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn’t fail to devastate in its time.

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly...

You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.

Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead...

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

You’re a Dark One,” said Anton. “All you see in everything is evil, treachery, trickery.””All I do is not close my eyes to them,” Edgar retorted. “And that’s why I don’t trust Zabulon. I distrust...

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury….

To light a candle is to cast a shadow…

When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be glad and reject the thoughts that arise within you, knowing that if they...

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow...

It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom.

It’s not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn’t evil, it’s just incredibly stupid.

We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That’s all we know for sure. We can’t create a new species or a new world. That’s been done. Now we have to...

Evil is termed as sin because it has the power to attract the mind. It acts upon our mind and heart to do what nature desires, even when such acts are prohibited by the laws...

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through...

Evil forges a tornado.But goodness battles in a straight line.

When evil men destroy, good men must build and bind.

Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil.

… Faustus … dared to confirm he had advanced beyond the level of a scarlet sinner — he was a conscious follower of the Prince of Darkness. The fact he could publicly project an Antichrist...

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

Life in all its resiliency, beauty and strength is sometimes eclipsed by its unquestionable transient frailty. Today we are alive…tomorrow is not promised. And it seems, the evil that lurks in the shadows, this side...