#evil

I've never seen the devil create music. ↗

— Little Richard

#devil #i #music #never #seen

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#devil #happy #pay

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. ↗

— Menander

#face #marriage #necessary #necessary evil #truth

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#conscience #evil #parents #penance #prison

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#evil #government #i #i believe #i believe that

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#devil #hardly #i #i am #onstage

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#even #evil #false #never #opinion

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. ↗

— Henry Miller

#difference #doctrine #evil #example #forces

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. ↗

— Henry Miller

#carries #dangerous #dead #different #evil

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#evil #god #old #old testament #testament