Saint Augustine Quotes, Evil Quotes, Doubt Quotes

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

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I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Clouds Quotes , Evil Quotes

We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try.

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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Evil Quotes , Wickedness Quotes

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

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there is evil everywhere under the sun.

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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

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Tags : A. J. Muste Quotes , Mean Quotes , Evil Quotes

I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , War Quotes , Evil Quotes

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Evil Quotes , Ends Quotes

All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Evil Quotes , Mind Quotes

There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value.

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When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

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Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Money Quotes , Evil Quotes

The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Long Quotes , Evil Quotes