Evil Quotes - Page 5

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to
moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written
in it?

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun.

When men follow justice the city blooms, the earth bears rich harvests, and children and flocks increase; but for the unjust all nature is hostile, the people waste away from famine, and a whole city may reap the evil fruit of one man's ill deeds.

He’d never really given religion much thought himself. It was just there, one of the basic fundamentals of life and living; Heaven is generally good and one should aspire to end up there, and Hell is decidedly foul and one should generally direct their enemies there.

De mens bedrijft het kwaad nooit zo hartstochtig en vol overgave als wanneer hij dat doet uit godsdienstige overtuiging.

Believe that you are someone worth saving.

There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.

Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be.

The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.

You must be a light unto yourself.

Intellectualism is a poor master over passion

The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force.

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil-well, that's something else.

The devil is not the prince of matter; the devil is the arrogance of spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns from whence he came.

The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil... my next The Opposite Of Magic.