Quotes about evil

"The devil's most devilish when respectable."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on evil
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"The devil is the author of confusion."

Burton, Robert on evil
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"The devil has his elect."

Carlyle, Thomas on evil   

"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees."

Cowper, William on evil   

"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on evil
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"I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on evil
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"If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once."

Harris, Sidney J. on evil
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"The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself."

Havner, Vance on evil
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"Why should the devil have all the good tunes?"

Hill, Rowland on evil   

"The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch."

L'Estrange, Sir Roger on evil   

"Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow."

Lindsell, Harold on evil   

"The devil is God's ape!"

Luther, Martin on evil
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"Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor."

Pope, Alexander on evil
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"Speak the truth and shame the devil."

Proverb on evil
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"The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil."

Proverb, Arabian on evil
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"Speak of the Devil and he appears."

Proverb, Italian on evil
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"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."

Roosevelt, Theodore on evil
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"Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation."

Schweitzer, Albert on evil   

"The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]"

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl."

Thompson, Francis on evil
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"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still."

Tozer, A. W. on evil
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"Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it."

Valentine, Alan on evil
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"You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts."

Voltaire on evil
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"For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do."

Watts, Isaac on evil
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"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together."

Arendt, Hannah on evil   

"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."

Aristotle on evil
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"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table."

Auden, W. H. on evil
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"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."

Baudelaire, Charles on evil
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"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

Bellow, Saul on evil
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"Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature."

Berger, John on evil   

"Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]"

Bible on evil
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"No evil shall happen to the just."

Bible on evil   

"Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house."

Bible on evil
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"Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad."

Bischer on evil   

"The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with."

Brodsky, Joseph on evil
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"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."

Buddha on evil
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on evil
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"The face of evil is always the face of total need."

Burroughs, William S. on evil
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"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."

Butler, Samuel on evil   

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