Quotes About Evil

Either pain affects the body (which is the body's problem) or it affects the soul. But the soul can choose not to be affected, preserving its own serenity, its own tranquillity. All our decisions, urges, desires, aversions lie within. No evil can touch them.

Virtue alone is happiness, and vice is unhappiness.

Sin is the the corruption of reason. That's why humans are capable of such evils, while unreasoning animals are not.

Im allgemeinen schadet das Böse der Welt nicht, und im einzelnen Falle schadet es nur dem, dem es vergönnt ist, sich frei davon zu machen, sobald er nur will.

If: this evil is not of my doing, nor the result of it, and the community is not endangered, why should it bother me? Where's the danger for the community?

Yo, al contrario, tras haber contemplado la naturaleza del bien y ver que es algo bello, y la del mal y ver que es algo vergonzoso, y la naturaleza del que yerra y ver que es de mi linaje, no por la misma sangre o simiente, sino por ser partícipe de la inteligencia[180] y fracción divina[181], tampoco puedo subir perjuicio por parte de alguno de ellos, porque nadie me cubrirá de vergüenza; tampoco puedo encolerizarme con el que es de mi linaje ni odiarlo. Hemos

As virtue and wickedness consist not in passion, but in action; so neither doth the true good or evil of a reasonable charitable man consist in passion, but in operation and action.

17. El perseguir imposibles es locura. Y es imposible que los malvados no cometan tales acciones.

The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.

He also that pursues after pleasures, as that which is truly good and flies from pains, as that which is truly evil: is impious.

But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own

They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine.

Eschatology is not, of course, about the destruction of the earth, but about its transfiguration, not about the end of the world, but about the end of evil, injustice, violence—and imperialism.

The passion for social justice that we see in the prophets is a protest against systemic evil. Systemic evil is an important notion: it refers to the injustice built into the structures of the system itself.

Here are the three main strands of second-temple hope. YHWH becomes king, Israel will return from exile, evil will be defeated, and YHWH himself will return to Zion.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Nimium boni est, cui nihil est mali.

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.

The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.' Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil. It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

that's what Hiltler exemplified: not the triumph of evil but the failure of reason.

Because they were ready for us, and waiting. The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil.

Each of the five tribes claims to have been the victorious attacker. Each recalls the slaughter with relish. Each believes it was ordained by their own god as righteous vengeance, because of the unholy practices carried on in the city. Evil must be cleansed with blood, they say. On that day the blood ran like water, so afterwards it must have been very clean.