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Quotes About Evil

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
~ William Godwin
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
~ Horace Mann
I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.
~ Kevin Bacon
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
~ Dennis Prager
It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.
~ Terry Eagleton
Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom...that is very hard indeed.
~ Rick Riordan
He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
~ Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada
Ignorance is the master key of all evils.
~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Evil is of the devil.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.
~ Compton Gage
If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down, and if the place where the evil is sown passes not away, then cannot it come that is sown with good?
~ Compton Gage
Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Nothing is more compelling than the power of choice. You can choose good over evil and right over wrong. Choose right!
~ DeWayne Owens
She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Honey from the devil's fingers tastes bitter.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom is more faithful than a woman, and knowledge is more faithful than a friend.Folly is more oppressive than a tyrant, and evil more overwhelming than fury.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A slap from an angel will make you wiserthan a kiss from the devil.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.
~ Debasish Mridha
Pure has become impure, Impure has now become pure.Good has now become bad, Bad has become evil.For one to live is to die, for one to die is to live.-Kikyo
~ Rumiko Takahashi
Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.
~ Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky
Good defeats evil most of the times, but sometimes in order to defeat the devil you must first become his disciple
~ Gaiven Clairmont
Tell Evil men of your sins and they will use it against you Tell a sinner of your sins and they will pray for you
~ Ocean Crisstopher Poet
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
~ John Cheever
When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.
~ Hannah Arendt