What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
Mikhail BulgakovYour purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.
MaimonidesTags: world evil good deeds scale
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
Khaled HosseiniTags: evil sociopathy psychopathy
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
Tags: love poetry evil democracy poems
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Ayn RandThe 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.
Ayn RandTags: philosophy evil
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.
Ayn RandTags: philosophy evil good
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.
John AdamsNothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: evil understanding
Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.
Henry JamesTags: writing evil story horror
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