Pastoral Resources

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

The evil that we know is best.

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.

I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.