evil

1.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

- Robert Pirsig

2.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

- Kahlil Gibran

3.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

- Twain, Mark

4.

A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

- Wilde, Oscar

5.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

- Charles Dickens

6.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

- Byron, Lord

7.

Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

- King Edward the Third

8.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

- Mitford, William

9.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

- Sackville-West, Vita

10.

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?

- Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

11.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

13.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

- Marcus Aurelius

14.

January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

15.

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

- Bible

16.

I was brought up in that other service; but I knew from the first that the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend. I saw that he was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only from fear.

- George Bernard Shaw

17.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

- Hardy, Thomas

18.

There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.

- J. K. Rowling

19.

SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth. A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that. A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. Better late than before anybody has invited you. Example is better than following it. Half a loaf is better than a whole one if there is much else. Think twice before you speak to a friend in need. What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it. Least said is soonest disavowed. He laughs best who laughs least. Speak of the Devil and he will hear about it. Of two evils choose to be the least. Strike while your employer has a big contract. Where there's a will there's a won't.

- Ambrose Bierce

20.

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

- R. W. Dale