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We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.
Evil cannot be overcome by more evil. Evil can only be overcome by good. It is the lesson of the way of love.
The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon
At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.
Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.
Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.
I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.
Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)
The great lesson of our time is that evil still exists, and when evil is on the march, it must be confronted.
The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.
As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.
Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.
Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.
Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped.
I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.
Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide.
Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.
We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.
Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.
From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.
We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?
How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!
Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company - evil or not - is going to do it for you.
Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.
I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.
Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.