#evil

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word. ↗

— Martin Luther

#devil #evil #religion #religion

Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#philosophy #religion #religion

There is in every village a torch - the teacher: and an extinguisher - the clergyman. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#good #madness-and-civilization #religion #religion

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#fairies #god #gods #i-was-so-full #religion

Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#evil #religion #religion

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#evil #people #world #people

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty. ↗

— Holly Black

#con #devil #lie #sexy #wit

How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt. ↗

— Graham Greene

#corruption #death #evil #glory #god

Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#crazy #evil #poetry #crazy

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself. ↗

— Will Durant

#life-is-evil #schopenhauer #death