Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.
My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation.
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star.
