Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
And I had never played an evil character before up until that point so I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to do as far as the acting choices were.
Oh, you know, driving around, coming to a stop sign and an entire family, from 8 to 80, will be looking at me with that Dr. Evil look - pinkie on the mouth.
They know that he was evil. They know that he was bad, ... But they find it difficult to accept that the international community is not, in the same way, dealing with what they consider crimes against Serbs during these horrible wars over the last 10 years.
The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if energy be not expended the power to generate it is lost. This law shows itself in a thousand ways in the life of man. The arm which is not used becomes palsied. The wealth which comes by chance weakens and destroys. The good which is unused turns to evil. The charity which asks no effort cannot relieve the misery she creates.
They who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed of, and are not ashamed of what they ought to be ashamed of, such men, embracing false doctrines enter the evil path.
I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
do all we can to honor those who rose up with resolve to defeat evil.
I find it a little bit comical that Microsoft is going with the lower number, which I applaud, and yet the analysts still want to stick to the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, higher pro forma number.
Fools follow after vanity, men of evil wisdom.
So our daily worship of God is not really the process of gradual acquisition of him, but the daily process of surrendering ourselves, removing all obstacles to union and extending our consciousness of him in devotion and service, in goodness and in l
I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
You can't expect the insurance industry to do something out of the goodness of its heart. But you might be able to combine incentives ... and regulation in a way that still lets the market work.
I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.
Truth will prevail over evil. We feel we did our best.
We think the world of him. He's one of our best friends a wonderful humble man. Olan exudes goodness.
A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.
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.
Teach us to delight in simple things And mirth that has no bitter springs Forgiveness free of evil done, And love to all men neath the sun.
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong beauty enchanting but rare goodness very apt to be weak folly very apt to be defiant wickedness to carry the day imbeciles to be in great places, peolpe of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night we wake up to it again for ever and ever we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
One of the things we've seen over the years is that historically our products have been viewed as a commodity item, we've been a necessary evil. But what's happening now is that homeowners are becoming more involved in the decision-making process of their homes.
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
I think in general, you need a bad guy to have someone to root against and I think kids understand a story more clearly if there's an evil element for them to cheer against and to root for the good guys.
The Bible is the Chief moral cause of all that is good, and the best corrector of all that is evil, in human society the best book for regulating the temporal concerns of men, and the only book that can serve as an infallible guide.
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Life is neither a good nor an evil it is simply the place where good and evil exist.
He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
The sexual abuse of children by priests is an especially grave and repugnant evil, ... It is a scandal which has evoked entirely justified outrage. The sexual abuse of children by priests is totally in conflict with the church's mission and with Christ's compassion and care for the young.
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
What an event like this in any community accomplishes is bringing people together for goodness,'' said Leito, who was an assistant at Connecticut when Butler played there.
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.
For the good that I would I do not but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O, wretched man that I am Who shall deliver me from the body of this death I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin.
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
I shall take it now in the name of evil!
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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