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.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence… sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry...

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Half of my life passed searching for the evil that makes me to do wrong things, until I found innocent evils trapped in me.

Evil is a double-edged sword, if you use it you’ll end up cutting you

It wouldn’t be real love if there weren’t the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn’t choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That’s why there’s evil in this...

But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.

My old man’s a white old manAnd my old mother’s black.If ever I cursed my white old manI take my curses back.If ever I cursed my black old motherAnd wished she were in hell,I’m sorry...

exposing their evil intent when it introduced the concept of globalization and a borderless world.

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...

This itch to have things over again, as if life were a film that could be unrolled twice or even made to work backwards … was it possibly the root of all evil? No: of...

The key to a good life is to balance the good and evil rather than trying to get rid of all evils because if you get rid of all your evils, you would also lose...

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts...

There’s a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn’t just inside our walls-it was inside...

She’s had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil.

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it unfolded before them. I feel that some people have a hard time with...

Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think...

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

Moreover, man carries in his heart the desire always to wield his scientific knowledge in service of the greater good. He would of course never use it for destructive purposes. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! …

All his court were cast down in slumber, and all the fires faded and were quenched; but the Silmarils in the crown on Morgoth’s head blazed forth suddenly with a radiance of white flame; and...

Just like the devil is against God. I think the so called love is against success. Tryna slow people’s lives.

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore....