Quotes About Evil

Es ist im strengsten Verstande wahr, daß, wie der Mensch überhaupt beschaffen ist, nicht er selbst, sondern entweder der gute oder der böse Geist in ihm handelt; und dennoch tut dies der Freiheit keinen Eintrag. Denn eben das In-sich-handeln-Lassen des guten oder bösen Prinzips ist die Folge der intelligiblen Tat, wodurch sein Wesen und Leben bestimmt ist.

A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all.

Common sense tells us that as long as people exist, disease will always coexist with us. And the same holds true for our social lives — as long as there are people, there will always be those diseased people (what I mean is those ethically corrupt boneheads) living among us. During times of stability, our lives are ordinary and routine, and the peace and quiet of the monotonous everyday gradually conceals the great kindness and the horrific evil that humans are capable of.

This outbreak has exposed so many different things. It has exposed the rudimentary level of so many Chinese officials, and it has exposed the diseases running rampant through the very fabric of our society. These are diseases that are much more evil and tenacious than the novel coronavirus. Moreover, there is no cure in sight. That is because there are no doctors willing to treat this disease.

All evil, all injustice, all harm that one does to someone else—in sum, all deviation from man's normative nature—in a much more fundamental way and in a far more ultimate sense one does to oneself, and not just metaphorically but literally.

This struggle between good and evil, fresh and stale, new and decrepit, between the vigor of moral youth and the dotage of senility, is of positive benefit, for it keeps the perennial moral values alive

the Devil can quote scripture for his own purpose'.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it.

Aunque no me corresponde probar la inexistencia de Dios sí puedo hacerlo. No puede existir un ser tan dañino que pudiendo en su omnipotencia hacer el bien haga la chambonada de este mundo con todos sus horrores.

El hombre en lo más hondo de lo más honde de su alma oscura es un ser malo, y mientras uno más vive y más lo conoce más malo es.

Nadie tiene la obligación de hacer el bien, todos tenemos la obligación de no hacer el mal.

"Ye ra-aly do think dhrink is a nicissry evil?" said Mr. Hennessy."Well," said Mr. Dooley, "if it's an evil to a man, it's not nicissry, an' if it's nicissry it's an evil."

Good men have only to do nothing, for evil to conquer" (137).

If our preaching does not intersect with the times, we are fleeing the call to take up the cross. We can learn from the example of Dostoevsky, who in The Brothers Karamazov used material that he read in the newspapers to give a human face to the problem of evil.

Evil comes from man's own "vain imaginings.

Fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

Fear is faith in evil instead of good

inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

None of us is fully able to perceive the truth that shines through another person's window, nor the falsehood that we may perceive as truth. Thus, we can easily mistake another's good for evil, and our own evil for good.

The devil, through his ordinary action, which is temptation, and through his extraordinary action, which is the subject of this book, tries to destroy the confidence of each man and each woman to love and to be loved.

While mankind tends toward evil, the legislators yearn for good; while mankind advances toward darkness, the legislators aspire for enlightenment; while mankind is drawn toward vice, the legislators are attracted toward virtue. Since they have decided that this is the true state of affairs, they then demand the use of force in order to substitute their own inclinations for those of the human race.

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. What are the consequences of such a perversion? ... In the first place, it erases from everyone's conscience the distinction between justice and injustice...When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

His mind turns to organizations, combinations, and arrangements -- legal or apparently legal. He attempts to remedy the evil by increasing and perpetuating the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions.