Zitat des Tages über Böse / Evil:
When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.
Ever since I was a little kid, I used to love doing the evil laugh: 'Mwahaha!' I could really do it! And there's a little bit of that inside everybody. Still, as a kid, it was like my favorite thing.
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
The evil that we know is best.
I don't think fashion is evil.
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
We cannot turn away because a topic is unpleasant or vile. Why? Because one way to rid our society of evil is to confront it boldly.
Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.
Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.
The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds.
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
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.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze - springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process.
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.
