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Quotes About Evil

Is your father really evil?" I heard myself ask. "Yes." "Because he drank, did drugs?" "No, honey. Because God made him that way, and he liked it. Your father had an excuse. My father doesn't.
~ Lisa Gardner
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
~ Frederic Bastiat
The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.
~ Granville Hicks
I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.
~ Stephen King
Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.
~ Bill O'Reilly
The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.
~ Noah Webster
In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil
~ Milton Friedman
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
~ Albert Einstein
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
~ Milan Kundera
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
~ Augustine of Hippo
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
~ Franz Kafka
Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
~ Plato
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
~ Lydia M. Child
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
~ Khalil Gibran
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil.
~ Rick Santorum
My fear of the Lord is Satan´s weakness.
~ Alin Sav
Good can exist without evil, but evil cannot exist without good.The former is eternal, the latter is temporal.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
~ Albert Einstein
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
~ Albert Einstein
It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
~ Albert Einstein
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
~ Albert Einstein