Evil Exists Quotes

#1. An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.

Adolf Hitler

#2. Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. Most people who perpetrate evil do not see what they are doing as evil. Evil exists primarily in the eye of the beholder, especially in the eye of the victim.

Roy F. Baumeister

#4. We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

Taya Kyle

#5. Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

Mencius

#6. The fact evil exists speaks far more about man than about God. The Bible says God hates sin.

Dee Henderson

#7. Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

Michelle Paver

#8. Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.

Keith Haring

#9. If Evil exists, it's to be found in our fears

Paulo Coelho

#10. Evil exists everywhere. Sometimes I think our limited senses are designed to protect us from awareness of its presence. We trust them to provide us with knowledge but it may be that they block out realization of horrors we cannot bear.

Robert Bloch

#11. God is all-powerful. God is perfectly good. Evil exists. If God exists, there would be no evil. Therefore God does not exist.

Epicurus

#12. Lord Manu had said it's not people who are evil. True evil exists beyond them. It attracts people. It causes confusion amongst its enemies. But Evil in itself is too big to be confined to to just a few.

Amish Tripathi

#13. Evil exists," he says, not flinching at the word. "I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in this city is something that a preacher would call evil. Somebody has power. Pretending that they don't so they don't need to use it to help people-that is my idea of evil.

Jonathan Kozol

#14. The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#15. Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

Thomas Malthus

#16. Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

John Ortberg

#17. Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

Ray Davies

#18. God is all powerful.
God is good.
Evil exists.
You can reconcile any two of those statements, but not all three.

Greg Iles

#19. The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.

Catherine Marshall

#20. The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

William P. Young

#21. There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the modern, western, secular mind set. They don't believe evil exists. They are exactly the ones who are in danger of getting blindsided by evil. Because they're not prepared for it.

Joel C. Rosenberg

#22. I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.

Victor Salva

#23. It's evil, Jo. It exists in all forms of life and death.

Brandy Nacole

#24. Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.

Virgil

#25. The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.

John Simon

#26. We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.

Brad Thor

#27. Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal, and they exist today. The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow.

Ed Warren

#28. The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

Albert Einstein

#29. The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they lost existence with it; for it is God alone Who exists, evil is non-being, the negation and antithesis of good.

Athanasius Of Alexandria

#30. There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.

Christopher X. Brodeur

#31. If God exists, either He can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities, or He does not care to. God, therefore, is either impotent or evil.

Sam Harris

#32. The nature of evil, the nature of it, it exists. It exists and I think within us we have the tools. If we have the will, we can combat it. I think the power is within us and it lies in our own conceptualization of God and positivity and compassion and love.

Vera Farmiga

#33. The flower is not evil because it blooms where it does. It simply exists. As do the fish in this pool, and the bird on the cliff, and you, and I.

Emily Rodda

#34. I do not accept evil. Man is perfect. The soul does not fall. Progress exists ... Up till now, misfortune has been described in order to inspire terror and pity. I will describe happiness in order to inspire their contraries ... As long as my friends do not die, I will not speak of death.

Comte De Lautreamont

#35. Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#36. Evil is loose in the world. I have to go." "I don't believe in evil. Mistakes, yes. Not evil." "Then perhaps you are afraid to believe it exists. It exists wherever men are. It

Brian W. Aldiss

#37. And this is the only really startling thing about the evil of the world: not that so much of it exists, but that nobody ever really expects it.

Andrew Pyper

#38. He understands evil better than any other person I've ever known. We disagree in how to eliminate it, but we do not disagree that it exists.

Nalini Singh

#39. You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.

Hayao Miyazaki

#40. If the human race would turn from its evil ways and return to God, putting behind its sins of disobedience, idolatry, pride, greed, and belligerence, and all the various aberrations that lead to war, the possibility of peace exists.

Billy Graham

#41. Nature is energy and struggle. It is what exists without any promise. If it can be thought of by man as an arena, a setting, it has to be thought of as one which lends itself as much to evil as to good. Its energy is fearsomely indifferent.

John Berger

#42. After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.

John Connolly

#43. I left the warehouse at 8.00am. I don't believe in 8.00am. It exists, though. 8.00am is incontrovertible evidence that evil dwells in the world.

Andrew Masterson

#44. Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

Benjamin Rush

#45. Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Pope Francis

#46. The power is neither evil not good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use.

Terry Goodkind

#47. Demons are a very human creation. You look for ways to explain evil, and instead of seeing it in yourselves, you offload the responsibility onto monsters. The monstrous exists in the mirror, not in the sulfurous depths of some fantasy world.

Kelley Armstrong

#48. Then you will come to see things in an all-encompassing sense and, taking the void as the Way, you will see the Way as void.

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom exists, principle exists, the way exists. Spirit is Void.

Miyamoto Musashi

#49. This generation, and many others, have been led to believe that the devil is a myth, a figure, an idea, the idea of evil ... But the devil exists and we must fight against him.

Pope Francis

#50. I believe we are our own gods, and our own devils. Good and evil doesn't exist out there in the world, it exists in each and every one of us.

K.A. Hill

#51. We cannot choose, he thought, the people we're born into nor what they teach us. So that opposition exists, and appears to us as evil. It is part of life, and sorrow is its natural consequence.

Karen Fisher

#52. When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.

Henry B. Eyring

#53. All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#54. There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

Edward Gibbon

#55. Good people will outlast the rule of the Church. No rule of law lasts for long, and there is nothing that can wholly destroy the good and evil that lives in man. It's ours to own for the duration of time and whatever exists beyond.

Nathan Yocum

#56. We cannot raise the question: How can there be evil if God exists? without raising the second: How can there be good if He exists not?

Boethius

#57. All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

William Friedkin

#58. Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

David Hume

#59. Here upon the earth evil is such was Shakespeare's declaration in the most emphatic accent. Iago actually exists. There is also in the earth a sacred passion of deliverance a pure redeeming ardor. Cordelia exists.

Edward Dowden

#60. Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil.

Maimonides

#61. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. All that exists is a magnificent interweaving, vast and reciprocal.

Michel Houellebecq

#62. For the person who is grounded in the timeless truth of the universe, there is no life and no death. He or she can experience eternal joy without being limited by the definitions of good and evil. The essence of Oneness always exists within us.

Ilchi Lee

#63. The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

#64. Only brooms
Know the devil
Still exists,
That the snow grows whiter
After a crow has flown over it

Charles Simic

#65. I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Roberto Rossellini

#66. The great lesson of our time is that evil still exists, and when evil is on the march, it must be confronted.

Stephen J. Solarz

#67. It is evil to keep these people in bondage, yet they cannot be freed. They must be educated! To free these people without education and with the prejudice that presently exists against them would be a ghastly crime.

William Styron

#68. Good and evil has no passport; it speaks in different tongues, wears many skins, and exists everywhere, even in the same person

A.H. Amin

#69. Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil ...

Winifred Holtby

#70. It is unfortunate that so many in society choose to see evil where only innocence exists.

Tracy Anne Warren

#71. There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

James A. Baldwin