#evil

Just because we're rid of Saddam and the evil Batthists doesn't mean the occupation is a good thing. Our salvation from Saddam was only with the grace of God. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#because #evil #god #good #good thing

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ↗

— Sallust

#defeat #defeated #evil #good #good man

I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation. ↗

— Victor Salva

#actions #because #believe #by-product #controversial

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ↗

— George Santayana

#force #passion #revenge #sometimes #superior

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. ↗

— George Santayana

#any #anywhere #evil #existence #optimism

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#capacity #evil #good #let us #man

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#ends #endured #evil #i #i believe

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off? ↗

— George Saunders

#days #doing #each #evil #find

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius. ↗

— Adam Savage

#genius #i #jamie #say #sure

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#both #evil #future #good #good and evil