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Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man
Friedrich Nietzsche
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Phaedrus
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil
Mahatma Gandhi
The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil.
Arabic Proverb
Well, evil to some is always good to others.
Jane Austen
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha
Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Source Unknown
Evil spelled backward is live.
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.Bacon was referring to Jesus
Francis Bacon, The Advancement o
...He made no complaint whatsoever about the bad reputation he had attracted throughout the world, assured me that he himself was the person most concerned by the destruction of superstition, and admitted to me that as far as his own power was concerned he had been afraid on only one occasion, which was when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than his colleagues, shout out from the pulpit: 'Dearly beloved, never forget, when you hear anyone vaunt the progress of enlightenment, that the Devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist!'
Charles Baudelaire, The Generous
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
A. W. Tozer
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
E. M. Cioran
I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters, p
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
Joseph Brodsky, Commencement Add
My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.
Tony Martin
He was defeated 2000 years ago though there's many that feel that he is The Lord and that they will succeed.
James Dye
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
William Cowper
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
Josh Billings
The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
Francis Thompson
