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Quotes About Evil

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.
~ Ronald Reagan
Everything doesn't happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God's plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God's lead, our work is to push back the darkness.
~ Adam Hamilton
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
~ Frederica Mathewes-Green
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
~ Christy Mathewson
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.
~ Wole Soyinka
The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.
~ Allyson Schwartz
War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.
~ Dean Hughes, Far From Home
People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.
~ George W. Bush
For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation's great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.
~ Richard Perle
Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.
~ Michael Franti
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
~ Ayn Rand
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our hearts are with you and we are ready to provide any assistance at any time....This is a war between good and evil and between humanity and the bloodthirsty.
~ Ariel Sharon
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.
~ Charles Sumner
The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.
~ George Friedman
I cannot understand how something as ubiquitous as war can simply be dismissed as pathological. It is not clear to me that it is an unspeakable evil. If it is, I need proof of it.
~ George Friedman
To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.
~ Jaron Lanier
Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.
~ Theodore Parker
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
~ Leo Tolstoy
War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.
~ Carl R White
Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.
~ Solas
The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson