Evil Quotes
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God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
Albert Einstein -
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
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Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fucking Darkness. Evil! Evil! What's fucking evil about a buttload of fucking bubbles!?
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
Abraham Lincoln -
There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.
Confucius -
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden -
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Xun Kuang
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain -
There’s an inner thing in every man, Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years, And will do so to the end. It was born when time did not exist, And it grew up out of life, It cut down evil’s strangling vines, Like a slashing searing knife.
Bobby Sands -
For good is simple, evil manifold.
Aristotle -
The longest day must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.
Jose Rizal -
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein -
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
Socrates -
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
Aristotle -
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken -
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Jose Marti -
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
David Harsanyi
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God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.
Thomas Aquinas -
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
Gustave Gilbert -
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
M. Scott Peck -
The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
Albert Einstein