#evil

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. ↗

— James Meade

#evils #great #mass #threat #two

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#become #bit #broadway #broadway musicals #get

I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#because #evil #frightening #i #i think

I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even. ↗

— John Waters

#george-w-bush #johnny-mathis #osama-bin-laden #imagination

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. ↗

— Hannah More

#certain #children #evil #idleness #ill

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#goodness #imagination

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. ↗

— Glen Cook

#right-and-wrong #righteousness #dreams

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful. ↗

— Kathleen Raine

#claim #descend #evil #explore #felt

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#behavior #collective #evil #humanity #individual

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#evils #expand #freedom #i #me