Saint Augustine Quotes, Omnipotence Quotes, Evil Quotes

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

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The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

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An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

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But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.

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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

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Being against evil doesn't make you good.

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Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

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The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

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A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

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If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

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The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

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President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was 'a man with a split personality - both of them evil'.

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Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

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Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

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He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Evil Quotes , Cold Quotes

Evil knows no holiday.

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