Top 1200 Necessary Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

Friction is necessary for motion, labor necessary for birth.

I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.

We try to bargain with God...I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer...We are afraid our surrender to God will unleash evil. But evil will come, because evil will come. We live in a broken world.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.

A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

Even an evil man can have principles?he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.

We are taught to attack the forces of evil and not those doing evil. That is what we are trained in.

Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.

When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

The great lesson of our time is that evil still exists, and when evil is on the march, it must be confronted.

If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know--an authority good for nothing.

I'm not really that sick of Evil Dead. I can trace all roots back to The Evil Dead movies, so I have nothing against them. It's just that I've done more non-Evil Dead stuff; it's not the only thing I've done. There are some actors who have done a cult movie and they are forever going to be the Policeman #2 in Plan 9 From Outer Space.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.

Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Vincenzo is a delightfully-refreshing dark hero who repays evil for evil.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Russia is an interesting place because they're extremely evil but they're not that good at implementing their evil.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.