Quotes About Evil

Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity

To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

Nature is Satan's church.

How do we still believe that human nature is not evil when 60 years old men rape 3 years innocent girls?

Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure.

God is an idea, the devil is us.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

There is no evil like hatred, and no fortitude like patience.