Quotes About Evil

In a less scientific age he would have been a devil-worshiper, a partaker in the abominations of the Black Mass; or he would have given himself to the study and practice of sorcery. His was a religious soul that had failed to find good in the scheme of things; and lacking it, was impelled to make of evil itself an object of secret reverence. - The Devotee of Evil

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Pray for the world that all transgressors rectify themselves, not to tolerate them to do more evil.

The best choice you can make for yourself is to socialize with lesser evil.

There is no evil in a man's mind, only temptation.

To reform an evildoer, you must before anything else help him to an awareness that what he did was evil. With the Nazis this won't be easy. They know exactly what they're doing: they just can't imagine it.

Evil, he had come to believe, was controllable as long as man had the strength of will to believe in himself.

If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?

The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.

Sin duda los imbéciles pasan por ser dichosos. Pero la ignorancia no podía combatir el mal, sino sólo ignorarlo.

God is above the world, and is also above sin and all evil. He allowed it because he could expiate it. So he maintained through all centuries and among all men the longing and the capacity for redemption, and wrought that redemption himself in the fulness of time, in the midst of history, in the crucified Christ.

The highest ideal for the Christian is not to make peace with the world, with science, with culture at any price, but to keep himself from the evil one.

By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral law, no duty, no virtue, and no highest good.

Without the law commanding good there could be no evil. But the same law makes it possible for the creature to exist. Without the law man would sink into nothingness; the law determines his humanity.

A man with some evil design, would he not be likely to speak well of that stupidity which was blind to his depravity, and malign that intelligence from which it might not be hidden?

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table.

The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se , forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.

IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they saw him coming towards them in the streets of Berlin, indeed, who in their dislike of him actually maintained that he must be an evil old man. Small, but well

No eyes will raise to heaven. The pure will be thought insane and the impure will be honoured as wise. The madman will be believed brave, and the wicked esteemed as good.

80. What is God? The immutable or unalterable good. 81. What is man? An unchangeable evil.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.