Lawful Evil

Famous quotes containing the words lawful and/or evil:

“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“... good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)