The most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good. —Katherine Anne Porter More about this quote Tags: evil good government cruelty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The real existence of an enemy upon whom one can foist off everything evil is an enormous relief to one's conscience. You can then at least say, without hesitation, who the devil is; you are quite certain that the cause of your misfortune is outside, and not in your own attitude. —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: evil conscience attitude misfortune enemy relief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting . . . but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. —Kurt Vonnegut More about this quote Tags: hate God evil fighting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no one in his right mind will believe this. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: society evil good punishment isolation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: evil devil scripture the bible Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding overman's capacity for evil. —David Sarnoff More about this quote Tags: capability evil good paralysis Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. —Anatole France More about this quote Tags: evil good nature principles Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. —Blaise Pascal More about this quote Tags: evil stillness idleness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. —Mae West More about this quote Tags: choice evil adventure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people. —Terry Pratchett More about this quote Tags: history people evil good flawed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. —Joseph Stalin More about this quote Tags: evil death natural Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Evil brings men together. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must as second best...take the least of the evils. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. —Ayn Rand More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. —Ayn Rand More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email