You can make money without doing evil.

I swear I walk with God, but the devil keeps following.

Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.

Believe me, you cannot stand still in your souls. Habits of good or evil are daily strengthening in your hearts. Every day you are either getting nearer to God, or further off.

The love of the bible will show itself in a believer’s readiness to bear evil as well as to do good. It will make him patient under provocation, forgiving when injured, meek when unjustly attacked, quiet when slandered. It will make him hear much, put up with much and look over much, submit often and deny himself often, all for the sake of peace.

People, even crazy, evil people, tended to believe they have a good reason for doing what they do. Though some consider religion the opiate of the masses, others use it to further their obsessions, or rationalize their crimes.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction

Nothing is black and white. There are no universal standards that determine what’s good and what’s evil. It’s subjective.

Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

We ought to cherish the body. Our body’s substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement

That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy has not yet been discovered. Perhaps it is an evil inseparable from the good with which it is allied; perhaps it is a shoot which cannot be stripped from the stalk without wounding vitally the plant from which it is torn. However desirable those measures might be which might correct without enslaving the press, they have never yet been devised in America.

There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by…corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.

It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place

Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass… to stand up against such social evils.

First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.

Boy, you’re good at figuring things out. Isn’t he? Except that if anybody’s the devil in this room it’s _you_, buster.” An extraordinary bitterness came into his face. “I’ve seen you before. I know you, all right, preacher man. Age after age, you come back. You always lead the crusades. You’re so damned golden-tongued, other people just flock to die for your causes. You die with them, it’s true, because you’re stupid enough to believe your own great lies; but you always come back again somehow. Oh, I know _you_.

No one deserves good or evil fortune,” said Lady Beatrice. “Things simply happen and one survives them the best one can.

Honestly, I’m willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I’m given. But ultimately, it’s the producer’s decision. But, I’ve done a variety of roles – the evil don, the evil husband… I’ve done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.

And that’s how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity.

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all

Government is a necessary evil

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients – or their lack – and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair

There are horrors beyond life’s edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man’s evil prying calls them just within our range.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Sunday school: a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

Venice is a Dorian Gray city. Somewhere up there in the world’s attic, there’s another place with the haggard, poxed and ravaged face of unspeakable evil. And I suspect it’s Cardiff

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. […] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.

Evil is whatever distracts.

I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

What saith Antisthenes? Hast thou never heard?— It is a kingly thing, O Cyrus, to do well and to be evil spoken of.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

The Charter was regarded as important because it assigned definite and practical remedies to temporary evils. There was very little that was abstract in its terms, less even than later generations supposed…. A King had been brought to order, not by a posse of reactionary feudalists, but the community of the land under baronial leadership; a tyrant had been subjected to the laws which hitherto it had been his private privilege to administer and to modify at will. A process had begun which was to end in putting the power of the Crown into the hands of the community at large.

If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

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

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one’s own secret sin didn’t matter.

Good land, evill way.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.

Most “necessary evils” are far more evil than necessary.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.

I thought that a Jewish state would be free of the evils afflicting other societies: theft, murder, prostitution… But now we have them all. And that’s a thing that cuts to the heart.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.

Shut your evil mucus-hole you truth terrorist. You LOSE every time a mirror implodes from your barbed and gristle image.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.