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Quotes About Evil

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
~ Victor Hugo
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
~ Robert Kennedy
I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.
~ Gavin McInnes
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Government is an unnecessary evil.
~ Jeff Berwick
Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.
~ Herbert Spencer
It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
~ James Cook
The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.
~ Keith Ablow, Murder Suicide
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
~ Lyn Nofziger
No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.
~ John F. Kennedy
It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.
~ A.E. Samaan
The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.
~ Tiffany Madison
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
~ Calvin Coolidge
It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.
~ Charles Addams
In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.
~ Thich Thien-An
Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
~ Samuel Johnson
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.
~ Samuel Johnson
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
~ Petrarch
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
~ Saint Basil
Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.
~ Mary Baker Eddy