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Quotes About Evil

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
~ Donald Miller
Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.
~ Donald Ray Pollock
The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
~ Epictetus
Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.
~ Eric Hoffer
The real genres: good and bad.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.
~ Greg Koukl
She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
~ Gregory Maguire
All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.
~ Jeff Iorg
The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
~ Jim Butcher
No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.
~ Julian Jaynes
People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.
~ Julianna Baggott
My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.
~ Julie Klassen
I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.
~ Lord Byron
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
~ Luc de Clapiers
In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.
~ Mark Twain
There are good characters and bad characters.
~ Matt Stone
Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.
~ Maureen Dowd
You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Vladimir Putin hates America, he wants to hurt us. Suddenly Vladimir Putin is a good guy, Russia is okay, no it's not. Russia is evil, Russia is our enemy.
~ Ralph Peters
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.
~ Ramana Maharshi