#Evil

"Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world."

"If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones."

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."

"quote from Chase the Moon- Some people are just downright wicked, and sometimes evil wins - but not always."

"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."

"All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word."

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

"Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty."

"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."

"In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it"

"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."

"There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey."

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

"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."

"People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction."

"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."

"Isn't wine prohibited here?"the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil,"said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is."

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

"Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?"

"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."