…guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.
– Dean Koontz
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- Best to live and love by the maxim that ‘silence in the face of evil is evil itself’, but when it’s evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself. – Criss Jami
- Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that. – Lakshya Bharadwaj
- Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- more guilt, guilt, guilt. That’s the Irish condition. – Adrian McKinty
- If there’s nothing to learn because we know it all, what’s the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? – Odd Thomas – Dean Koontz
- Evil never dies. It just changes faces. – Dean Koontz
- Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil. – Amit Abraham
- The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins. – Thomas Jefferson
- She’s had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil. – Agatha Christie
- When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil? – Nick Joaqun
- Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive. – Dean Koontz
- Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing. – Dean Koontz
- Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires… – Dean Koontz
- Small-town boy meets big-time evil. – Dean Koontz
- Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive. – Dean Koontz
- Accidents and sicknesses are accepted as deserved retribution by the person who has feelings of guilt – Sunday Adelaja
- The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. – Edith Hamilton
- People don’t resist change. They resist being changed. – Peter M Senge
- The moment you resist change, you resist existing past your current state of awareness. – Nikki Rowe
- Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water. – Bryant McGill
- God cannot resist love for He cannot resist Himself. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. – George Eliot
- Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some see an innocent victim. Others will see evil incarnate getting exactly what’s deserved. – Emily Thorne
- I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck. – Dean Koontz
- He would never need a knife to spread a pat of ????er on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it. – Dean Koontz
- Evil triumphs when good men refuse to call it evil – Dean Cavanagh
- Never under-estimate your effort, no matter how little. Every effort, little or great is a step closer towards the actualisation of your dreams. – Chinonye J Chidolue
- I have tried to live my life with no regrets. Because regrets will become guilt in some cases, and guilt eats away at your sanity. – James Hauenstein
- Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World. – Vineet Raj Kapoor
- Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn’t have this guilt – the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it. – Veronica Roth
- Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you. – Bryant McGill
- Where ever there’s guilt there’s violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood. – Glen Duncan
- He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn’t add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever. – Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- There is a good guilt and a bad guilt… the good one Leeds us to ask for forgiveness the bad Leeds us to hide from God. – Chuck Bridges
- Got something to do with guilt,’ Toro said. ‘Her mother,neh?’ ‘Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us. – Kiana Davenport
- Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical. – Sarah Ruhl
- This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong. – Atul Gawande
- Only afterward did the guilt set in–the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty. – Tiffany Reisz
- As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I’m stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really. – Will Advise
- There’s no such thing as an evil race, just evil circumstances that make people do evil things. – Stuart Hill