#evil

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#absolute #better #certainly #could #define

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#confession #evil #first #good #good works

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. ↗

— Saint Ambrose

#conscience #evil #mind #nothing #save

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#crime #ever #evil #holocaust #most

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#make #movies #videos

All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#die #evil #fat #grow #ideas

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#god #just #knows #never #terrible

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#adultery #another #caught #could #evil

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#bed #eats #evil #human #our

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#changed #devils #humility #into #makes