#evil

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#blessing #even #every #evil #government

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anything #best #bullies #completely #devil

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#been #completely #date #i #me

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#evil #i #islamists #often #portray

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it. ↗

— Joe Pantoliano

#daredevil #did #get #i #killed

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl. ↗

— Francis Thompson

#how #howl #know #only #sing

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#battery #complete #complete person #evil #feel

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#completely #conviction #evil #men #never

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#comes #evil #human #inability #man

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#comes #discovered #evil #human #i