#evil

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#misattributed #darkness

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure. ↗

— Lilith Saintcrow

#the-devil-s-right-hand #escape

There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked that they must not be allowed. When you can be perfectly certain that the other man started them, then is the time when you might have a sort of duty to stop them. ↗

— T.H. White

#fighting #right #war #duty

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. Virtue and vice were warp and woof of our first consciousness, and they will be the fabric of our last, and this despite any changes we may impose on field and river and mountain, on economy and manners. there is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill? ↗

— John Steinbeck

#evil #good #john-steinbeck #story #change

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep... ↗

— John Milton

#lucifer #satan #satan

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#devil #horror #horror

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#choice #good-and-evil

Evil will win if good people do nothing. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#real-talk #good-and-evil

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #good-and-evil

Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all. ↗

— Andrzej Sapkowski

#life