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Quotes About Evil

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.
~ George Soros
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
~ William Cowper
The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.
~ J. C. Ryle
All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.
~ James Rollins
In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.
~ Frederick Lenz
So sad is this that nigh to all are ignorant to the pain and death caused by the hands of evil.
~ Michelle A. Lammers, Broken
The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.
~ Diogenes
Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
~ Jim Rohn
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.
~ Wilfred Bion
The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.
~ E. O. Wilson
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
~ Leon Trotsky
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
~ William Banting
The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.
~ Christopher Paolini
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.
~ Jerry Garcia
Sufrió a manos de los malvados en Su primera aparición, pero vencerá y reinará sobre los malvados en Su segunda aparición.
~ Jeffrey D. Johnson
The FUTURE of this world has long been DECLARED; the final outcome between GOOD and evil is already KNOWN. There is absolutely no question as to who WINS because the VICTORY has already been posted on the SCOREBOARD. The only really strange thing is all of this is that we are still down here on the FIELD trying to decide which TEAM'S JERSEY we want to wear!
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
So?" Weissmann asked the agent when Manafort was gone. "That man is evil," the agent said.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
Sadly, when you give someone evil exactly what they want, they only crave more. This group wants all the power they can get their hands on.
~ Jen Calonita
No!" Anna cries. "Stop!" Her eyes lock on me. "Devin, do something! They have a baby! Didn't you hear them? They said, 'Help us!' They need our help! Tell them what you heard!" Everyone is looking at me. "No," I say, backing up, shaking my head. Anna is evil. I am not. I couldn't have heard. It was all in my head. "I didn't hear anything.
~ Jen Calonita