Top 100 Evil Act Quotes
#1. Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#2. A thought enters; we pamper it; it germinates and grows into an evil act.
Billy Graham
#3. He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The veracity of their words was another matter, but at least they believed them. The southern white man was spat from the loins of the devil and there was no way to forecast his next evil act.
Colson Whitehead
#4. Never do an evil act just because it is trivial; never leave a good act undone just because it's small.
Liu Bei
#5. How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!
Swami Vivekananda
#6. Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
Bentley Little
#7. We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
Barbara Lee
#8. A man, who does not commit an evil act either, has no opportunity or the stomach.
M.F. Moonzajer
#9. Rape is not an extraordinary or evil act for an assailant. It is like forcing someone to eat when she is not hungry.
M.F. Moonzajer
#10. There are two things that can stop us from committing an evil act; love and fear- religion always chooses the latter one.
M.F. Moonzajer
#11. 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
Michelle Malkin
#12. Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill.
Rob Brezsny
#13. Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.
Gregory Maguire
#14. Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act. Don't worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes.
Susan May Warren
#15. Women think they can act like evil monsters from hell and be loved like a princess. It's as if the dragon and the witch was in them and not in the world.
Robin Sacredfire
#16. Being good or being evil is not something that is inherent in our nature over which we have no control, rather we define ourselves by the choices we make, moment by moment, situation by situation. All it takes is an act of will to be the best that we can be.
Laurence Overmire
#17. An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act
Paulo Coelho
#18. HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.
Rob Brezsny
#19. A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.
Peter Kreeft
#20. I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Mohammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father Ali Ibn Abi-Talib.
Husayn Ibn Ali
#21. Beware; satan visits you by the noises of negatively minded people. Hear, but don't act on it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#22. We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
Edward Dahlberg
#23. We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.
Cal Thomas
#24. You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#25. Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge or act. These are functions of the self.
Ayn Rand
#26. Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.
Bram Stoker
#27. The discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#28. the only failure that cannot be excused is the failure to act on an injustice or to right a wrong. Those are the failures history shuns because the people who stand by and allow evil to occur are very nearly as bad as the evil-doers themselves." Archer
April White
#29. The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.
Josef Pieper
#30. Perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.
Aristotle.
#31. Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.
J.K. Rowling
#33. The moment when the battle ends is not always a happy one: to fret and strain against evil is an act itself dear to a hearty spirit with convictions.
Robert Nathan
#34. You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
Rachel Bilson
#35. A choice is an act of god, malevolent or loving is your will, free until conflicting with others who share this power, a true collision of good and evil.
K.R. Royal
#36. To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
Thiruvalluvar
#37. If you see oppression, violence, injustice and evil deeds, unzip your silence and uncaring indifference, do something and act against all these unethical instances." ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my novel, If I Could Tell You
Angelica Hopes
#38. The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.
Rick Yancey
#39. If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God and thinks of Him, the effects of evil are cancelled.
Sarada Devi
#40. Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from compassion with suffering, from understanding the other person.
Joseph Campbell
#41. Evil wasn't a force from some horrible underworld. It was the force inside people that allowed them to act in horrible ways.
Dale Mayer
#42. Of justice you will find none.... To judge is evil. To mete justice, more appalling still. Act from compassion and you will do better than to devise any code or facade of justice.
Jessica Amanda Salmonson
#43. For this is what I have learned, in my short life: do not act out of anger. Act from love or not at all. I have seen it, how anger makes a space for what I must call evil.
Kim Edwards
#44. The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.
Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
#45. Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.
Wesley Clark
#46. If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.
John Patrick Shanley
#47. People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
Umberto Eco
#48. An act of evil is the death of wonder
Joe Meno
#49. We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, certainly we've got an obligation to try.
Barack Obama
#50. No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
Orson Scott Card
#51. The existence of evil does not harm the world. And an individual act of evil does not harm the victim. Only one person is harmed by it - and he can stop being harmed as soon as he decides to.
Marcus Aurelius
#52. To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#53. Is it better to commit evil and attempt to balance it with an exalted act than to live a resolutely neutral life?
Don DeLillo
#54. If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by his Son, then it makes a mockery of Jesus' own teaching to love your enemies and to refuse to repay evil with evil.
Steve Chalke
#55. Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.
Milarepa
#56. It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart's choice.
George MacDonald
#57. Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.
Confucius
#58. This World is filled with Demons (Humans) who love lying to each other. If they find a true man they will stab in back and act like innocent.
Srinivas Shenoy
#59. There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.
Leigh Brackett
#60. Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
J.C. Ryle
#61. I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
Philip G. Zimbardo
#62. It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#63. Evil, good, create, destroy. Puny minds. Puny caves. Time, MacKayla. Time absolves.
Time does not define the act. Time is impartial; it neither condemns nor absolves. The action contains intent, and intent is where the definition lies.
Karen Marie Moning
#64. The very act of looking for evil in others develops evil in those who look. By dwelling upon the faults of others, we are changed into the same image.
Ellen G. White
#65. People who know but do not act do evil too. I don't know if I would call them evil but they're certainly not thinking about heaven.
Jonathan Kozol
#66. You act like they're especially unholy or something.Are you trying to tell me that in the final showdown between evil and good, the weapons of choice will be guns and..cats?
Lia Habel
#67. Only then, when no situation or character is obviously good or evil, is it truly interesting to act.
Liv Ullmann
#68. The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.
Malcolm X
#70. After a victim is made to participate in an act of evil, the people in charge put a lot of energy into convincing the child or adult that he or she is evil and a perpetrator rather than a victim.p324
Alison Miller
#72. It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about them, so you know what the opposite is.
Casper Crump
#73. But always they featured things we believed were wrong in the sight of God. Stealing, lying, murder. Was this what God wanted in times like these? How should a Christian act when evil was in power?
Corrie Ten Boom
#74. Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine
#75. If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
Adam Hamilton
#76. If an act of evil is to stain my soul, it will be for one of my own.
A. Zavarelli
#77. This is the greatest evil that grows out of a wrong act. Somebody always remembers it ... in an evil way.
James A. Michener
#78. The evil heart is patient, cross her fingers, palms together, hope, pray and act with faith, that all your hard work may come to nothing
Dew Platt
#79. There are times when you have to defend yourself or someone else against relentless evil. And some of those times the only defense that has any hope of succeeding is a one-time use of brutal, devastating force. At such times good people act brutally.
Orson Scott Card
#80. Who's to say what's evil? A man's beliefs are his own business. Neither the Church nor anybody else has the right to tell you how to act; that's what real freedom is about: to be able to be who you really are, not what you are expected or supposed to be.
Richard Ramirez
#81. The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#82. It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
George Washington
#83. Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.
J.K. Rowling
#84. When we are happy to turn from evil because it is ugly, and causes us distress, then we condone it and become party to its continuance. Little by little, we become as guilty of it as those who commit the act - because we have told them by our silence that it is acceptable.
Anne Perry
#85. If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings
this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.
Gautama Buddha
#86. What we're talking about here is goodness, mercy, and justice- and those are not fantasies. They'll exist whether you believe in them or not. However, if you believe, then you'll put your beliefs in action; and if you act you will help ensure that evil doesn't triumph. But only if you act.
Dean Koontz
#87. Silence in the face of evil is evil itself: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#88. We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.
Barack Obama
#89. The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
Aeschylus
#90. For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
T. S. Eliot
#91. Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
Elie Wiesel
#92. Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.
Edmund Burke
#93. No rational person would intentionally commit an act of evil, for everyone knows that it would bring the wrath of the community upon him. (Socrates)
Karen Essex
#94. There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee the safety of the country and that 'as we act, let us not become the evil we deplore.
Chris Hedges
#95. I tried to cheer her up, and apparently succeeded in some degree, before the walk was over; but in the very act my conscience reproved me, knowing, as I did, that, sooner or later, the tie must be broken, and this was only nourishing false hopes and putting off the evil day.
Anne Bronte
#96. You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Jean Ferris
#97. My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good? ...
Brent Weeks
#99. Safety is only an illusion when evil is on the hunt. I can't stand by and watch. I have to act.
Terry Goodkind
#100. Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous act, are still at the sideways of delusion and conquer.
M.F. Moonzajer
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