Quotes About Evil

This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good and falsehood with truth and hatred with love.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Beware the power of the dark side.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

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

Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.

Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives

Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

You need to learn to recognize these things right from the start. Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

In short, the problem of evil starts when creatures think God is evil for "cramping their style." The impulse of our modern secular culture to cast off restraint wherever possible finds its root here.

Christian philosophy has, like the Hebrew, uniformly attributed moral and physical evil to the action of created free will. Man has himself brought about the evil from which he suffers by transgressing the law of God, on obedience to which his happiness depended. . . . The errors of mankind, mistaking the true conditions of its own well-being, have been the cause of moral and physical evil.28

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist.

humanity is the gatekeeper through which evil passes into the world. In this metaphor, the Fall becomes the failure of the gatekeeper to maintain proper control of the gate.