Quotes and Sayings About Evil
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Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'
-- A. E. Waite -
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
-- A. E. Waite -
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.
-- A. J. Muste -
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
-- A. J. Muste -
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
-- A. Powell Davies -
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.
-- A. V. Dicey -
Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.
-- A.A. Attanasio -
There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker
-- Aaron Allston -
Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
-- Aaron Hill -
It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
-- Abba Eban -
There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance Âand aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.
-- Abba Hillel Silver -
We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
-- Abdallah II -
When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.
-- Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad -
I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak -
But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.
-- Abolqasem Ferdowsi -
I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise.
-- Abolqasem Ferdowsi -
I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
-- Abu Bakr -
Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
-- Abu Bakr -
To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
-- Abu Bakr -
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
-- Abu Bakr -
The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.
-- Abu Nu`aym -
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
-- Ad Reinhardt
