#evil

He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't speak to that. What I do know? This is your story. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#history #myth #religion #beauty

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bring #evil #exist #god #good

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. ↗

— Roberto Rossellini

#evil #exists #form #i #i am

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. ↗

— McGeorge Bundy

#evil #evils #lesser #occasionally #two

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. ↗

— Lord Byron

#evil #generally #must #mystery #suspected

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly. ↗

— James Chanos

#accounted #any #derivatives #done #evil

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. ↗

— John Cheever

#choose #evil #good #good and evil #knowledge

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power. ↗

— Harmon Killebrew

#evil #guess #i #intentions #power

We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil. ↗

— Claus von Stauffenberg

#before #challenge #conscience #done #evil

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good. ↗