Quotes About Evil

Jesus abhors both passivity and violence as responses to evil.

Posidonius holds that riches are a cause of evil, not because they do evil themselves but because of the evil they goad men to do. . . . Riches puff up the spirit and beget pride. They bring on envy and unsettle the mind to such an extent that a reputation for having money delights us, even when that reputation will do us harm. Seneca, Epistles 87.31

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

What Paragal intended for evil has become the foundation for much that is good.

I'm so sick of these wussy princesses and evil women. We've done the evil witches of Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel, the evil queen of Snow White and the evil stepmother of Cinderella. Is this some kind of campaign against femininity? Our choices are the evil and usually ugly powerful female or the helpless princess, desired just for her beauty? And what the heck is this shit about evil stepmothers anyway?

Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.

God doesn't give you what you want, but prevents the evil that doesn't let you get it.

Only God can deliver you from the evil you love so much."

The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children on the altars of our most destructive sins. When the sickness of pornography has run to its most evil and destructive end, it takes the form of child pornography. When prostitution reaches its sickest, most depraved form, it becomes child prostitution.

Three quarters of these people know Instinctively what ought to be The nature of society And how they'd live there if they could. If it were easy to be good, And cheap, and plain as evil, how, We all would be its members now...

The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

In der mittelalterlichen Kunst entspricht das Aussehen der Menschen ihren Seelen: die Bösen hässlich, die Guten schön. Das neunzehnte Jahrhundert hat uns beigebracht, das sei Unsinn. Aber mit ein bisschen Lebenserfahrung merkt man, es ist gar nicht so falsch.

little world": "The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate, and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.

Christians today, no less than people of other faiths, are caught between pervasive apathy and acts of violence, apathy born of hopelessness about the enormity of the evils that confront us and recourse to violence and coercion that seriously compromises or even destroys the goals of a better future. Either way, we can close off the future to which we are directed by God our creator and redeemer.

I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is rather much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between two irreconcilable views of the world.

more evil has been carried out in the name of religion than any other force in human history.

We are tempted to think that we have reached the end of history, that it can never happen again. But history is made every day, sometimes by men of evil. And all too often, history repeats itself. (Holy Father, the Pope)

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

L?comia de averi, nedreptatea social?, r?azboiul, toate acestea sunt manifest?ri ale r?ului din lumea noastr?.

Contrary to general belief, evil is neither tragic nor romantic; most of the time, it is banal.

The local Red Cross chapter volunteered to publish his book. It came out in a deluxe, gold-embossed, Japanese-paper edition to remind the reader of human artistry, which can be a refuge from evil and a source of new, platonic stirrings. One copy was reserved for His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II. (The Tsar fairly devoured mystical works, believing that hell could be avoided by a combination of education and deceit.) "The Book of Kings and Fools," p. 136.

There are degrees of love. If not, the vibratory rate would be so high we wouldn't be able to be on this plane. The degrees exist because this is the planet of lesson, and as our lessons are learned, we progress to a higher degree of embodiment of Love. We notice "evil" people because their behavior indicates separateness, not oneness, i.e., a lack of regard for others.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough.