Quotes About Evil

Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's grief," said Corrie ten Boom. "It takes away today's strength. It does not enable us to avoid evil, but it makes us incapable of dealing with it when it comes."4

MERCIFUL FATHER, help us to gather together and pray for your mercy. Forgive us for pushing you out of our lives only to fill them with meaningless pursuits. Forgive us for allowing evil to penetrate our hearts and minds. Open the eyes of our nation to our desperate need for you. Thank you for giving us not what we deserve but what we need to find our way back to you.

Praise bounteous providence if you will that grants even an ogre a tiny glow-worm tenderness encapsulated in icy caverns of a cruel heart or else despair for in the very germ of that kindred love is lodged the perpetuity of evil

Any evil which you might have seen with your eyes, or spoken with your mouth, or heard with your ears or trodden with your feet; whatever your father might have brought upon you or your mother brought upon you, I cover them all here.

God has never sat around biting his nails, wondering what Hitler and Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein were going to do.

Satan is always content to hide in the shadows of a worldview if he can exploit that worldview to his own ends.

There were people in the world who were good and people who were evil, but most of them were some mixture of both and did what they did simply because they were mortal. And her Lord? ... He knew it all and had known it all and always would know it all.

Ah, the Devil Herself. We really do not know whether the Devil wears breeches or a skirt, now do we?

There were people in the world who were good and people who were evil, but most of them were some mixture of both and did what they did simply because they were mortal.

Racism towards Muslims is as evil as anti-Semitism, but try to express this simple truth on a partisan Palestinian or Israeli website.

The danger is not Islam or Christianity or any other religion. It is the human heart—the capacity we all have for evil. All human institutions with a lust for power give their utopian visions divine sanction

There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee the safety of the country and that 'as we act, let us not become the evil we deplore.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.13

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty," Simone Weil wrote.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, or nigban, is an evil - a fearful evil. A happy future existence is alone good.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.

I do believe that there are monsters out there - and that they are monsters.

America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional debate.

I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation.