Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Charity conceals a stupid cruelty, because it is not courageous enough to face unpleasant facts.
She felt that charity did not focus on the root causes of the problems and thus inhibited reform.
The honied tongue hath its poison.
We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.
Television leaves no external scars.
It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.
For every Harvey Weinstein, there's three or four thousand other pastors, coaches, teachers, uncles, cousins, and stepfathers who are committing the same crimes. We have to keep that in focus and we have to keep talking about it.
I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.
Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.
Disease often comes with a smiling face.
The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think they would also see a deeper violence - the one that's not as showy or as immediately arresting, but kind of the more unsolvable violence that lurks underneath.
That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.
I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.
Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.
I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.