#Evil

"Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?"

"Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends."

"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance."

"Evil surrounding can destroy a Good soul."

"Don’t be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn’t allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you."

"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."

"When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad."

"I want to protect innocent people from sin by locking them in cages, where the evil can't get to them."

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

"We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better."

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."

"Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself."

"Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all."

"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."

"Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners."

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