Evil Quotes

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'

I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.