…it begins with isolation – demons always inhabit desolate places…

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

The aspirant would do well to avoid those ‘spiritual teachers’ who delight in pointing out the evils of the world. These are immature egos attempting to discard their own negativities by projecting them onto others....

Evil is unspectacular and always human,And shares our bed and eats at our own table ….

Dad, will they ever come back?””No. And yes.” Dad tucked away his harmonica. “No not them. But yes, other people like them. Not in a carnival. God knows what shape they’ll come in next. But...

Intellectualism is a poor master over passion

The mystery of Evil and its origin & purposes”.~R. Alan Woods [2012]

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

I’m rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I’m tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or...

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

I’ve seen a lot of stuff… maybe I’ve seen too much. I see most humans in a bad light because I’ve seen what they can do, how evil they can be… I’ve seen the Holocaust...

When the soul, through its own fault… becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.

Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?

ou nous ne sommes pas libres et Dieu tout-puissant est responsable du mal. Ou nous sommes libres et responsables mais Dieu n’est pas tout-puissant. Toutes les subtilités d’écoles n’ont rien ajouté ni soustrait au tranchant...

Ransom perceived that he had never before seen anything but half-hearted and uneasy attempts at evil. This creature was whole-hearted. The extremity of its evil had passed beyond all struggle into some state which bore...

Le Bien ne laisse aucune trace matérielle – et donc aucune trace, car vous savez ce que vaut la gratitude des hommes. Rien ne s’oublie aussi vite que le Bien. Pire: rien ne passe aussi...

I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater....

Evil is a point of view … God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately … for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves.God kills indiscriminately and so shall...

Seems to me people are mean or evil because they’re scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they’re going to lose something.

There are abusive individuals whose worst little demons are greed, sloth,envy, gluttony, pride and wrath enslaved by their god which is money. They usually set their false assumptions, wrong judgments, gossips and lies forceful than...

Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn’t present always. I mean, often what you’re meeting is a very mediocre person. But nonetheless, you...

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.

It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: ‘Oooh no! Too much sunlight.’

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make...

It was so awful! And he kept on looking at me and I knew I must get out of bed or he’d come and touch me. I did, too, but when I got out I...

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

The law’s a necessary evil–we canna be doing without it–but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

…questioning the existence of God may begin because of one’s sense of disappointment rather than because of a line of reasoning. Disappointment can bring disillusionment, and disillusionment can get quite a grip on us. It...

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil in those people around whom they swarmed. I’ve since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural...

This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

Meddling is the evil, not indifference.

We are going to your father,” Mrs. Which said. “But where is he?” Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace. Mrs. Whatsit answered in a...

So yes, black mages often can be evil. But black as a color is not inherently evil. Being influenced by black’s philosophies does not necessarily mean that one will commit an evil act. That being the case, we cannot say that black represents...

Darkness will never prevail. If you do not recognize the evil in our world, you will never stand up to it.

Without memories,there can be no good or evil. It will exist only indifference!

Take good care of your final word. If your final say will hunt you in day’s ahead, then hold back the words, and let silence speak.

I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn’t read.

As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly...

The intellectual climate of the 1970s, for which the 1950s had already paved the way, contributed to this. A theory was even finally developed at that time that pedophilia should be viewed as something positive....

But I’m a villain and villains don’t get happy endings.

An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the...

If we don’t harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil.

The Story of Prince Barkiarokh”)

no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them....

Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.