Quotes About Evil

Evil is the absence of God.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.

I do not believe there is a way in which this deeply entrenched evil can be quickly healed. But until this goal is reached there is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

Die Welt wird nicht bedroht von den Menschen, die böse sind, sondern von denen, die das Böse zulassen.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing.

El mundo no está amenazado por las malas personas sino por aquellos que permiten la maldad

If the majority knew if the root of this evil, then the road to its cure would not be long.

If the majority knew of the root of this evil, then the road to its cure would not be long.

there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the ugliness of the tyranny.

Evil requires no reason.

Agitaion over happenings which we are powerless to modify, either because they have not occured, or else are occuring at an inaccesible distance from us, achieves nothing beyond the onoculation of here and now with the remote or anticipated evil that is the object of our distress.

No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

What is there in common between life and chemistry; between good and evil and electrical charges, between a collection of cells and the consciousness of a caress?

The people who make wars, the people who reduce their fellows to slavery, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word—these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

The people who make wars, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word- these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

We now see that all the evils of religion can flourish without any belief in the supernatural, that convinced materialists are ready to worship their own jerry-built creations as though they were the Absolute, and that self-styled humanists will persecute their adversaries with all the zeal of the catholic inquisitors exterminating the devotees of a personal and transcendent Satan.

All too many Christians have behaved as though the devil were a first principle, on the same footing as god. They have paid more attention to evil and the problem of its eradication than to good and the methods by which individual goodness may be deepened, and the sum of goodness increased.

Da, e lucru îngrozitor s? cazi în mâinile r?ului reîncarnat. - Atunci, întreab? doctorul Poole, de ce continuaÈ›i s?-L veneraÈ›i? - De ce arunci mâncare unui tigru care mâr?ie?Ca s? câÈ™tigi un moment de respiro. Ca s? amâni oroarea inevitabilului, fie È™i pentru câteva minute. ?i pe P?mânt e la fel ca-n Iad - dar cel puÈ›in eÈ™ti tot pe P?mânt.

Remember that unbalanced force is evil; that unbalanced severity is but cruelty and oppression; but that also unbalanced mercy is but weakness which would allow and abet Evil. Act passionately; think rationally; be Thyself.

His principle in politics was a -very simple one : If you see anything, stop it ; everything that is, is wrong ; the world is a very wicked place. He was very enthusiastic about putting through a law for suppressing the evil of drugs.

Demoni. Angeli andati a male. Però bellissimi.

But the dreadful thing about wicked ideas is that bit by bit wicked minds can become accustomed to them.

Mma Ramotswe was right: evil repaid with retribution, with punishment, had achieved half its goal; evil repaid with kindness was shown to be what it really was, a small, petty thing, not something frightening at all, but something pitiable, a paltry affair.