#evil

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#evil #good #good and evil #human #human beings

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#endangers #evil #good #perceive #value

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#brooding #dreaming #easy #everything #evils

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#conflict #decide #every #evil #falsehood

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#burn #confuse #down #evil #fire

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#been #behind #blindly #did #evil

An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#come #devil #door #get #just

Afternoon classes - that evil invention! ↗

— John Gresham Machen

#classes #evil #invention

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#gained #good #good works #hatred #much

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#act #always #arranges #evil #free