Evil Quotes

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.