Quotes About Evil

Do not accept an evil you can change. (p.101)

we should not accept an evil we can change

If attachment is an evil, we must look for its cause in the scandal of birth, for to be born is to be attached. Detachment then should apply itself to getting rid of the traces of this scandal, the most serious and intolerable.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

a shamefaced world of precautions and barriers which may avert evil, but which do not seem to bring good...

at the end there was presented to the girl the complete picture of a cheerless, loveless world in which the young rush to destruction until they learn better—a shamefaced world of precautions and barriers which may avert evil, but which do not seem to bring good

Look at those flies on the ceiling. Why have you not drowned them?" "Huzoor, they return." "Like all evil things.

When morality is exiled from public life and isolated in the private spaces of the individual, to be enjoyed only at certain times in our day, how can we know with any certainty that shame and mercy are shared concepts? and how can we convince people not to commit evil in those realms of public life from which law enforcement is absent.

Good is the natural state of things. Evil is the absence of good.

Women of bad intent went up there to seek evil men. Evil children were born.

Evil rules, and good men must needs be outlaws—or corpses—if they're to stay good. So

The core teachings of Buddhism stand in distinct contradiction to Hinduism. Whereas Hinduism believes that evil does not exist and is an illusion, Buddhism embraces evil, and the solution for evil is summarized in the Four Noble Truths.

A biblical theology of persecution creates a framework for understanding God's sovereign purpose in allowing the evil dominions of darkness to inflict suffering on His children.

Trump cannot be cordoned off into a corner with evil, racist demagogues. We make him wholly bad in order to protect our innocence. He is made to bear the burdens of all our sins, when he is in fact a clear reflection of who we actually are.

slavery would make us—and the idea—completely irredeemable. How can the shining city on the hill be capable of such evil? We would rather find comfort and safety in the lie than try to resolve this question. But, in the end, we have to allow this "innocent" idea of white America to die. It is irredeemable, but that does not mean we are too.

In the face of such evil, the federal government continued to slow-walk substantive reform, and white people continued to be white people.

One of the more insidious features of Trumpism is that it deliberately seeks to occupy every ounce of our attention. In doing so, it aims to force our resignation to the banality of evil and the mundaneness of cruelty.

"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!"

There is today, every day, set before thee good and evil, life and death--choose thou. For only self can separate you from the love of the Father. For it should be manifested to thee that thou art conscious in a living world, aware of suffering, of sorrow, of joy, of pleasure. These, to be sure, are the price one pays for having will, knowledge. But let that knowledge be spent in a way and manner to help others. For as ye do to thy fellow man ye do to thy Maker.

Thou wert wise to chisel for me: «Taken from the evil to come».

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.