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  • As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

  • We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

    Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company
  • 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.

    Ambition   Men   Evil  
    Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
  • A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

    Men   Evil   Neighbor  
  • We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can we embrace all this? Because we all contain within ourselves equally the capacity for kindness, as much as for cruelty or evil. And the best of us are able to suppress those baser impulses, instincts. That's the war within.

    Kindness   War   Mean  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.

    Crush   Strong   People  
    "Here's What Russian Punk Band Pussy Riot Said At The Conclusion Of Their Controversial Blasphemy Trial". Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's closing speech at the Pussy Riot trial in Russia, www.businessinsider.com. August 10, 2012.
  • Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.

    Eye   Evil   Anxiety  
    Daniel Defoe (1822). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe: who was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque, where he resided twenty-eight years. With an account of his travels through various parts of the world”, p.103
  • The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

    Fire   Evil   Age  
    Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.74, University of Georgia Press
  • I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

  • As Serbia continues to move towards rectifying the evils of its past and joining the ranks of democratic nations, it is important that the individuals involved in the death of the Bytyqi brothers are held accountable for their actions[.]

    Brother   Moving   Past  
  • Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

    Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.222, Xist Publishing
  • Make love your weapon to overcome any evil

  • If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?

    Powerful   Evil   Doe  
  • In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!

    Believe   Winning   Evil  
    "Nowt as queer as folk" by Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2003.
  • When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

    Evil   Demand   Accepted  
    Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”
  • I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!

    Queens   Lying   Taken  
    Margaret Atwood (2009). “Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing”, p.127, Hachette UK
  • Purge me from every sinful blot; My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought, From all the filth of self and pride. The hatred of the carnal mind Out of my flesh at once remove: Give me a tender heart, resigned, And pure, and full of faith and love.

    Heart   Pride   Idols  
    John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.21
  • So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

    Evil   Doe  
  • The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

    Ignorance   Pride   Evil  
    M. Scott Peck (2015). “The People Of The Lie”, p.302, Random House
  • Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

    Character   Evil   Way  
  • It's a different thing with cable TV. You don't have to have your characters be lovely again by the end of the episode. And in this era of the male antiheroes on cable TV, you don't even need to make them likable; you just need to make them compelling. As opposed to film, where it's still those basic tropes of good versus evil. But for women, I don't think that has been widely seen yet.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

    People   Evil   Debate  
  • There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

    Adversity   Sea   Evil  
    Thomas Watson “A Body of Divinity”, Lulu.com
  • For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

    Christian   Evil   Leader  
    Annie Besant (2012). “Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History”, p.200, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.

    Courage   Believe   Hero  
    N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.173, Random House Books for Young Readers
  • Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.

    Government   Evil   Abuse  
  • The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

    Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.147, Macmillan
  • Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the other side, the equations of motion in a central field. Ever higher soars the chaos of formulae. Suddenly we hear, as from kettle drums, the four beats 'put n=5.' The evil spirit v vanishes; and ... that which had seemed insuperable has been overcome as if by a stroke of magic ... One result after another follows in quick succession till at last ... we arrive at the conditions for thermal equilibrium together with expressions for the transport coefficients.

  • Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.

    Hate   Cutting   Men  
    "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.
  • Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

    Country   Evil   Alcohol  
    George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”
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