Lawful Evil

Famous quotes containing the words lawful and/or evil:

“All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial.”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 6:12.

“... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)