Top 100 Evil Is Quotes
#1. Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
Plautus
#3. Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
John Ruskin
#4. To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
Claudius
#5. Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All things are subject to abuse, all things are susceptible to beneficial use. And balance does not consist in denial, or excess of indulgence.
John Parsons
#6. What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.
Gary Zukav
#7. Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.
Terry Eagleton
#8. In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.
Robert Jay Lifton
#9. Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#10. If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
Adam Hamilton
#11. If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind.
Sengcan
#13. The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. Evil is relative ... You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.
Glen Cook
#15. Accurate scholarship can
unearth the whole offence
from luther untill noe
that has driven a culture mad.
From what occured at linz
what huge imago made
a psychopathic god.
i and the public know
what all schoolchildren learn
those to whom evil is done
do evil in return.
W. H. Auden
#16. Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.
Aldous Huxley
#17. It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!
Mother Teresa
#18. Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
Laozi
#19. God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
Peter Straub
#20. Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience.
Gregory Maguire
#21. What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!
Pietro Aretino
#22. The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.
James Swain
#23. God's solution to the problem of evil is his Son Jesus Christ. The Father's love sent his Son to die for us to defeat the power of evil in human nature: that's the heart of the Christian story.
Peter Kreeft
#24. All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#25. Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.
Kenneth Anger
#26. No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
Samuel Johnson
#27. We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity?
G.K. Chesterton
#29. The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding a village and killing all the inhabitants, or killing a child in a fit of rage. Mistakes. Everything is simply a matter of mistakes.
Anne Rice
#30. The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
Stefan Molyneux
#31. Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.
Brent Weeks
#32. Thomas Aquinas said of suffering, as Aristotle had said of shame, that it was a thing not good in itself; but a thing which might have a certain goodness in particular circumstances. That is to say, if evil is present, pain at recognition of the evil, being a kind of knowledge, is relatively good.
C.S. Lewis
#33. The single most instinctive evil is discrimination
Rahul Bose
#34. Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit," Gordinus told her cheerfully. "Sometimes rising to one, sometimes swooping to the other. To ignore his capacity for evil is as obtuse as blinding oneself to the heights to which he can soar.
Ariana Franklin
#35. Evil is not the opposite of love; evil
is the absence of love." by Robert W. Chapman. Author of A Certain Fall.
Robert W. Chapman
#36. Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
John Bradshaw
#37. Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
Origen
#39. It's hard to find evil in this world,' said the Witch. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.
Gregory Maguire
#41. When we learn the wrong lessons of history, evil is reinforced rather than restrained- particularly when we use the injuries of the past to serve the interests of the future and ignore the injustices of the present.
Os Guinness
#42. Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.
Shantideva
#43. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good
and we all know how rare that is ...
Jasper Fforde
#44. When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious with wisdom, strength, and holiness ... Denial of evil is a word of Truth.
Myrtle Fillmore
#45. 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
#46. Evil is a kind of oblivion, having destroyed everything on its way there. I
Robin McKinley
#47. Evil is real - but so is God's power and love.
Billy Graham
#48. the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. Does
C.S. Lewis
#49. Evil is the worst necessity for mankind to learn and earn better life.
Toba Beta
#50. Evil is like a shadow. It follows you.
Yaa Gyasi
#51. I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.
John Connolly
#52. Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out. The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.
Jane Goodall
#53. The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt
#54. God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
Albert Einstein
#55. If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.
Peter Kreeft
#56. Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgements which people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be cured of their ills only if they are persuaded to change their value judgements,
Donald Robertson
#57. The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign
Randy Alcorn
#58. There's no such thing as evil for its own sake. All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}.
Glen Duncan
#59. I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
Madeleine Albright
#60. The beginning of all temptations to evil is instability of temper and want of trust in God;
Thomas A Kempis
#61. Life is not a matter for simple optimism
for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism
for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.
Rollo May
#62. Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'
John Carroll Lynch
#63. The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism ... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
Rudolf Steiner
#64. Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.
Dean Koontz
#66. Because the Nome King intends to do evil is no excuse for my doing the same,
L. Frank Baum
#68. There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.
Thomas Foran
#69. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
#70. I think the evil is in the food, in the noise, in the crowding, in the stress, in the water, in the air.
Edward Abbey
#71. Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
Al-Ghazali
#72. The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.
Philip Zimbardo
#74. And my father!-oh, my father! evil is it with his daughter, when his grey hairs are not remembered because of the golden locks of youth!
Walter Scott
#75. One cannot conquer the evil in himself by resisting it ... but by transmuting its energies into other forms. The energy that expresses itself in the form of evil is the same energy which expresses itself in the form of good; and thus the one may be transmuted into the other.
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#76. He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would shun it and how could virtue then be attached to its repudiation?
Cormac McCarthy
#77. Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. After all, Goodness is a state of grace. Evil, is a state of mind.
Greg F. Gifune
#79. Truly, if ignorance is the foundation of any man's goodness, it is not worth the wind that upsets it, but in its mere self, ignorance of evil is a negative good.
George MacDonald
#80. To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.
Samuel Parr
#81. Evil cannot be "treated"
nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.
Bill O'Reilly
#82. By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.
Gautama Buddha
#83. Davy, I knew the exact time of your birth and what you would look like when the time was at hand, for I dream dreams. Now is the time. A great evil is brewing in the land that will turn the nation against itself. But you must make a stand for what is right. Be strong, young man, be strong.
David Holdsworth
#84. There are no honorable causes. There is no good or evil. Evil is only what we call those who oppose us.
Michael Sullivan
#85. Don't, he thought. Don't let it happen. Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself. Harry
Jo Nesbo
#87. Evil is that which one believes of others.
H.L. Mencken
#89. The evil is in the White House at the present time.
Tip O'Neill
#90. An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead options. Only then, that is, by the action of Will, good results in good and evil in evil.
Raheel Farooq
#91. To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
Samuel Johnson
#93. Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.
John Of Kronstadt
#94. Evil is an adjective. It is an adjective used to describe those actions of man (and their effects) that are contrary to the nature of God.
N.D. Wilson
#95. Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Alain Badiou
#97. The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.
Maimonides
#98. Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.
Franz Kafka
#99. I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way ... the RIGHT way.
Phil Anselmo
#100. Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.
Roy Baumeister
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