#evil

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#built #church #fifty #forty #fully

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#evil #i #i think #necessary #necessary evil

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#believe #chief #content #devil #get

Very few people go into politics to be reviled. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#few people #go #into #people #politics

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. ↗

— Marie Curie

#discoveries #draw #evil #good #humanity

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil? ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#christians #decades #evil #exterminate #give

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#evil #journalist #owes #tribute

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#being #content #deal #dream #dreams

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#flow #greatest #our #ourselves

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. ↗

— John Gardner

#devil #editors #exception #fight #incompetent