Quotes About Evil

Suffering is an evil that an all-wise, all-righteous, and all-loving God uses for eternal good.

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Cain is in each of us. We lose our temper, feel cornered and frightened, it can be the work of an instant. But to savour murder - that's not the prompting of Cain, that's Satan!

I suspect this abbey, for all its sanctity, houses a veritable brew of malevolent, murderous mischief.

Ci sono momenti in cui penso che gli uomini nascano con il bisogno di combattere contro il male e che quando non riescono a trovare nulla di malavagio con cui lottare, se lo creino da soli. Istvan DiVega - Il ritorno del principe.

No one is good; no one is evil; everyone is both, in the same way and in different ways. … It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of the common task.

No one is good; no one is evil; everyone is both, in the same way and in different ways. It would be needless to point this out if the unscrupulous were not always saying the opposite. It's so small a thing, the life of man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of the common task. I wish to love, and I cannot. I wish not to love, and I cannot.

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.

In stories of the good and bad it's only the good who are subject to dreadful luck, mischance and blundering. The bad are always sharp and act with discipline, have cunning plans only just thwarted in the nick of time. The evil are always on the cusp of winning ways.

Patients who suffer from sexual addictions enter treatment paralyzed by shame and humiliation. They describe themselves as "evil" and "defective." They desperately want to be liberated from the crush of their destructive behavior, but can't get out from under it's demoralizing weight

This planet was a marketplace where evil tugged murderously at its chains. Its spies were everywhere. At windy corners where young girls with knowing children's faces were selling flowers and matches, on the operating tables at the hospitals, in the slums, at railway stations, under viaducts.

Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it.

Evil is like a pathogen that enters a system, be it an individual, nation-state, or world-system, and exploits that system, knocking it off balance.

The afterlife is mostly a dream state where you confront the good and evil within you. The text repeatedly explains that the images the deceased sees and the sounds one hears are hallucinations created by one's own thoughts.

Slavery has destroyed kingdoms and empires, and what may we not expect will happen to those religious communities in which this crying evil is tolerated? The least evils that we can expect are disaffection and division.

It's extremely important to prophecy believers to be able to read the signs of the times, that is, events that are signalling to us that the end time is near, and such events as wars, conflicts, increasing levels of evil and wickedness in the world, rising environmental hazards, the emergence of a global economy--all of these are seen as signs of the times that signal to us that the Rapture is near; the final sequence of events could unfold, at any moment.

If good people won't do the hard things, evil people will always win, because evil people will do anything.

She had devoted her life, in a practical and unimportant way, trying to prove that fear was evil because it promoted prejudice, that courage was good because it was a sign of selflessness, that ignorance was bad because fear sprang from it, that knowledge was good because the more you knew of the world's complexity the more clearly you saw the insignificance of the part you played.

In addition, forgiveness is crucial to deliverance from the Evil One, because a bitter heart gives him a foothold in our lives.

16Be free, yet without using freedom as a pretext for evil, but as slaves of God. 17Give honor to all, love the community, fear God, honor the king.

The Scripture tells us that the fervent prayer of righteous believers has great power in its effects (see Jas 5: 16). That's why, when Our Lord Himself taught us how we should pray, He included the petition: "Deliver us from evil"—which can also be translated, "Deliver us from the Evil One," that is, from the Devil.

The good which proceeds from a false basis (and such a case can happen in times of upheaval) is a very real evil for the entire society. It encourages the factious, not in this respect, that they search for the good, but rather because the deceitful appeal of that good delivers over to them virtuous men and makes them their accomplices.

This war was only about greed, it seemed to me, and insanity. Adolf Hitler was a madman—everyone knew that—but he was also a child, a red-faced, angry baby bent on total dominion. There had been a time, perhaps, when the world could have joined forces to stop him, but that had come and gone. Now, there was only a chance to temper the size of the catastrophe, to staunch the loss of lives, thrashing back against evil with torches or pitchforks.

Satans balls