Quotes About Evil

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.

Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Americans understand we fight not a religion; ours is not a campaign against the Muslim faith. Ours is a campaign against evil.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

And on the eighth day, Satan laughed.

The Y Chromosome, organized religion and money are the roots of all evil.

Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds

The devil is the most stubborn verisimilitude on earth!

The only reason that the devil can read scripture, is that it was written with him in mind.

It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity.

The devil's most devilish when respectable.