Quotes About Evil

You see I want to be quite obstinate about insisting that we have no way of knowing—beyond that fundamental loyalty to the social code—what is "right" and what is "wrong," what is "good" and what "evil.

A devil doesn't act through evil, but through weakness...

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.

There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

There is one thing Satan cannot stand and that is to be ignored and slighted. He lives on attention and dies of neglect.

The Jewish historian Hannah Arendt, in her book about the trial of Nazi administrator Adolf Eichmann, observes that in many cases the Nazi camps were run by ordinary bureaucrats: the evil was astonishing in its banality.

Dr Pessimist Anticant never recognised 'that in this world no good is unalloyed, and that there is but little evil that has not in it some seed of what is goodly.

So, Kerensa, you should never regret any experience, good or evil; for there's some good in what's bad just as there be bad in good...

Whatever may be noble and heroic in war is found in us, and whatever is evil and horrific in war is also found in us.

The Communists are evil. They don't believe in God and they don't believe in money.

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

Before money, woman is the root of all evil because if woman didn't exist, money would have no meaning.

Don't trust in smile every time because evil always enters smiling.

It just really sickens me today to watch everybody fawning all over Sharon Osbourne. She's a talent judge on TV and she has her own show and this and that. This is the most evil, shittiest woman I've ever met in my life. She would fucking have you killed if it was to her advantage. She's just… it's just… if people really knew.

Since the objective standard of goodness is the word of God, and evil is meant by whatever deviates from this objective goodness, we know that if we can gain knowledge of the content of divine revelation, we will know what constitutes goodness, and also what is evil.

The evil disposition of the unregenerate mind prevents a person from assenting to the gospel regardless of the preacher's persuasiveness.

So the non-Christian argues against the Christian idea of God by using non-Christian definitions of love, evil, evidence, necessity, and other key terms. Then why not also argue against a non-Christian idea of God and leave us out of the debate altogether? The argument from the problem of evil is best used by non-Christians against non-Christians.

The truth is that the existence of evil poses no challenge to the Christian doctrine of God, or to any aspect of the Christian faith. Moreover, non-Christian worldviews in fact cannot make sense of the existence of evil, if they can have a concept of evil at all.

We must insist, contrary to the "free will" of humanism, that God did not merely "permit" evil, but he decreed it; otherwise, it could not have originated.

people have trouble with the existence of evil not because it poses any logical challenge to Christianity, but because they are overwhelmed by the emotions that the topic generates, and these emotions disable the minimal level of judgment and intelligence that they normally exhibit.