Evil Quotes
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I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.
Edvard Grieg
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
Sam Harris
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The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil foolish talk about his benefactor, Elijah Muhammad. Such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death.
Louis Farrakhan
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Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.
Aristotle
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.
Pope Benedict XVI
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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
John Adams
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Charles Baudelaire
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
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That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.
John Milton
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Socrates
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Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
Lois McMaster
