Very well. He’d lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been,...

It seems it doesn’t pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now...

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the...

The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they lost existence with it; for it is God alone Who exists, evil is...

Do not talk evil of others; see only good in them.

The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of ‘humanness’ would be destroyed. We would become robots.Let me explain...

Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.

The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

To the kidnappers, I would say, ‘I know Tom could forgive you for the evil you’ve done.’ I hope I would be able, too.

Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!

There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

We ate our fill, but there was more left when we was done. ‘It’ll be in the icebox if y’all want some more later on,’ she told us. There weren’t no way I would have...

Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

You don’t just have people who wake up in the morning and say, “What evil things can I do today, because I’m Mr. Evil?” People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody...

If we further consider this divine panoramic view within which all evil is supposedly a “secret good” is held by a God who, according to Scripture, has a passionate hatred toward all evil, the “solution”...

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

So… Boris. Are you evil?’ [said the Doctor].’Not at all, my dear sir,’ chuckled Boris.’You just chuckled,’ groaned the Doctor. ‘Chuckling’s a dead givaway in my books. Along with putting your hands on your hips...

Ayn Rand’s ‘philosophy’ is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society…. To justify and...

The season of evil,” I echoed. “Protect your soul.

The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can’t count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to...

Poverty doesn’t say so much about God as it says about us.

Among the world’s evils—fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation— smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kid’s school.

She was rage and vengeance, wrath and malice, in beautifully twisted human form.

Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and...

When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the trick of karma.

It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good.

His voice was low, and I think he would’ve been hot if he weren’t radiating that air of “I Am Super Evil–No, Really–And Not In The Sexy Way.

Man is a mixture of good and evil, and he can never be perfected in this life. The notion of his natural goodness is a delusive theory which will blow up any social order that...

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

Evil became invisible when it was everywhere. Like air, everyone forgot it was there until it was blowing hard enough to knock off their hat or muss up their hair.

Evil must always be fought.

It wasn’t right. Evil should look evil. It should reek like rotten flesh, not smell like pine cleaner and fabric softener

Sophie and Agatha locked eyes one last time but neither screamed for the other.Once true loves, the two girls now pulled apart like strangers, each in the arms of a boy, Good with Good, Evil...

Others are not born bad or good… and neither are people, by the way.

Wir lernen aus unserer eigenen Geschichte, wozu der Mensch fähig ist. Deshalb dürfen wir uns nicht einbilden, wir seien nun als Menschen anders und besser geworden. Es gibt keine endgültig errungene moralische Vollkommenheit – für...

There is evil! It’s actual, like cement.I can’t believe it. I can’t stand it.Evil is not a view … it’s an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds,...

If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feetWhen far away an interrupted cryCame over houses from another street,But not to call me back or say good-bye;And further still at an unearthly height,A luminary...

To be slightly evil is to embrace life.

In the use of force, one simplifies the situation by assuming that the evil to be overcome is clear-cut, definite, and irreversible. Hence there remains but one thing: to eliminate it. Any dialogue with the...

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin.” The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in...

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall...

Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves; it knows them only as judgments about relationships.

You can feel anything. All is free for you to feel. But I guarantee you that if you allow yourself to feel envy and then to swim in it, that envy will destroy you and...