Quotes About Evil

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

The right-wing critique of capitalism--that is, the critique which is unsupported by the objective movement of history--however true, acute, profound, even brilliant it might be--can only end up by capitulating before the very evil it condemns.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.

For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance.

Never leave the door open at this hour, or evil may come to you.

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

We dwell upon the earth; the earth obeys The intelligent and evil till they die. The mountains cannot judge us when we lie.

But ideas can be true although men die, And we can watch a thousand faces Made active by one lie: And maps can really point to places Where life is evil now: Nanking; Dachau.

When by the power of evil karma, misery is being tested, may the tutelary deities dissipate the misery.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone.

Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.

I've met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited to school for Career Day.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.