#evil

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. ↗

— Robert Burton

#devil #farthest #feed #fullest #general

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#father #lies #master #pride #sin

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

— John Cheever

#choose #evil #good #good and evil #know

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#baseball #baseball game #becomes #between #blur

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood. ↗

— Robin Day

#balls #changing #evil #get #i

You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil. ↗

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

#fear #god #love #love

I love devils. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#i #i love #love

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#evil #good #ideas #interests #vested

It was said Daredevil grew up in Hell's Kitchen, an amazing name for a neighbourhood. But that opened a Pandora's box of all the crime stuff I wanted to do. I borrowed liberally from Will Eisner's 'The Spirit' and turned 'Daredevil' into a crime comic. ↗

— Frank Miller

#borrowed #box #comic #crime #daredevil

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#better #dangerous #dispense #easily #evil