Evil Justification Quotes

#1. The Bible is man in a nutshell. Good and evil live side by side in the same book. That's why it's cherished. The good find in it encouragement, the weak solace, the evil, justification.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#2. Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.

Dan Barker

#3. There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Ayn Rand

#4. You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.

Mark Russell

#5. Every ball that is kicked, Martin O'Neill will be literally kicking it

Dwight Yorke

#6. This is classic denial: no one wants to hold a mental image of themselves as bad or evil, so immoral acts are necessarily dressed up in a cloak of intellectual self-justification.

Mark Lynas

#7. Do not lose yourself in your everyday work and activities. Rather, lose yourself in God. When you are doing work, let your innermost heart be centered on Him. Live in His presence and abide in Him. Then your work will follow you into eternity, and you will reap a rich harvest.

Basilea Schlink

#8. Standing at the original Victorian counter was a man in a long black leather coat. His hair had been grown to counteract its unequivocal retreat from the top of his head, and was fashioned into a mean, frail ponytail that hung limply down his back. Blooms of acne highlighted his vampire-white skin.

Julia Stuart

#9. One cannot deal with pure evil, with the naked, full-conscious evil that neither has nor seeks justification.

Ayn Rand

#10. Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#11. What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while trading pats on the back and placing flowers on graves.

Kristina McMorris

#13. There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

Samuel Larsen

#14. She had a slow, deliberate way of walking
as if she had once been startled into precipitate action and had regretted it."
"A Place in the Country

Shirley Hazzard

#15. In race of life, it does not matter who finishes first. What matters most is being able to complete your race.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

Peter Medawar

#17. Aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?

Suzanne Collins

#18. When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

Ayn Rand

#19. Reincarnation offers a better justification of evil than anything monotheism can offer, but it does so by blaming the victim and sanctifying the status quo.

Patricia Crone

#20. Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#21. Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.

Paulo Coelho

#22. Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Richard Dawkins