3,115 Quotes About Evil

  • Author J. R. R. Tolkien
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    There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.

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  • Author J. R. R. Tolkien
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    For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.

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  • Author Jeremy Taylor
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    since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

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  • Author Jeremy Taylor
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    Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.

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  • Author Joni Eareckson Tada
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    God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.

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  • Author Klaus Toepfer
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    Americans are not the only victims. The evil hand of terrorists has hit the human race. We are all victims.

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  • Author Sue Townsend
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    'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

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  • Author William Makepeace Thackeray
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    I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

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