Quotes About Evil In The World

#1. But just know that there is evil in the world. Real evil. You can fight it, or you can hide and pretend it doesn't exist.

Scott Snyder

#2. I know there's evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don't need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

Tess Gerritsen

#3. There's terrible evil in the world."
It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

Richard Adams

#4. Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

Angelina Jolie

#5. Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

Ramakrishna

#6. You'll find, Ivan, that most of the evil in the world is done by men who are addicted to their own thoughts.

Scott Stambach

#7. I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world.
Terri Mitchell

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. There is evil in the world. Things might be easier if there wasn't, if good and evil were just concepts men invented to justify themselves; we could ignore them, then. Sadly, good and evil are both very real, and very inconvenient.

Seanan McGuire

#9. There is more goodness than evil in the world, but you know, you still got to work at it.

Lasky Kathryn

#10. In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

Fyodor Stepun

#11. When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.

Dennis Lehane

#12. It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

Abba Eban

#13. We can't protect our children from every evil in the world, but what we can do is protect them from a specific group of people.

Krista Ritchie

#14. If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.

Timothy Keller

#15. When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait.

Blake Crouch

#16. Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

Jean Genet

#17. If every man, ... ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

Grace Metalious

#18. There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.

Hillary Jordan

#19. There is no such thing as evil in the world of science. There are only those who discover and are remembered, and those who do not and are forgotten.

S.C. Barrus

#20. Beware of the charismatic wolf in sheep's clothing. There is evil in the world. You can be tricked.

Terry Tempest Williams

#21. It's not your fault there is evil in the world Cadvan to Maerad

Alison Croggon

#22. I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.

Steven Weinberg

#23. You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right. We'll all be all right. I wanted you to know that.

Geoff Ryman

#24. All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other,
Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil.
Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us.
To want more is to lose this, and be unhappy.

Alberto Caeiro

#25. The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.

George Soros

#26. The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

Pope Francis

#27. If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

Moby

#28. Evil begets evil. It grows. It transmutes, so that sometimes you cannot see that the evil in the world began as the evil in your own home. I

Yaa Gyasi

#29. If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this the famous preacher replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives.

Billy Graham

#30. In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Emil Cioran

#31. A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

George Soros

#32. We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#33. Most of the great evil in the world happens not at the hands of malice, but of fear. Because good people, the ones who would do the right thing, don't do it, out of that fear.

Breeana Puttroff

#34. We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win.

Johnny Isakson

#35. Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Carl Jung

#36. You don't need Satan to explain the evil in the world. He is not the creator of the universe

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#37. Philosophically, war is an extension of man's struggle with sin and evil in the world.

Billy Graham

#38. That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and ... I don't even know which of them is me. - Hyrum Graff

Orson Scott Card

#39. The only evil in the world is the one that lies in people - in their pride, and greed, and duty. Remember that.

Susan Fletcher

#40. Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to defend themselves by the actual practice of doing so rather than familiarity with theory.

J.K. Rowling

#41. Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

L.M. Montgomery

#42. Compassion doesn't arise from the belief that the evil in the world is somebody else's fault or that it is a result of poor choices a suffering person has made.

Holly Sprink

#43. All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.

Wei Wu Wei

#44. Some people would say- you're only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn't matter. But all the evil in the world's made up of little drops. It's silly talking about the unimportance of the little drops. The little drops and the ocean are the same thing.

John Fowles

#45. She talked about God giving man free will. Because of that, there is evil in the world. If God pulled everyone's strings all the time, we'd be puppets.

Janice Cantore

#46. There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

Evelyn Waugh

#47. The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.

Max Born

#48. There is only one real evil in the world: mediocrity.

Harlan Ellison

#49. It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.

Rudolfo Anaya

#50. The only way to accept evil in the world, is first to accept evil in yourself.

Alexandar Tomov

#51. It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

Lincoln Steffens

#52. Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.

Criss Jami

#53. All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

Jean Giraudoux

#54. We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Barack Obama

#55. He'd grown up an untroubled believer, but the war had put an end to that. What God could permit such misery and slaughter? But, in time, he had found consolation in a God beyond understanding, and prayed for those he'd lost, for those he loved, and an end to evil in the world.

Alan Furst

#56. I'm saying there is evil in the world," Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, "and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.

Daniel Abraham

#57. I have always believed that there is more goodness than evil in the world.

Kathryn Lasky

#58. Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you don't care who gets hurt.

Joe Hill

#59. There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

Dean Koontz

#60. Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time?

Hermann Hesse

#61. The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

Swami Vivekananda

#62. I do not believe in a mixture of good and evil in the world, or in myself. All is Good.

Emma Curtis Hopkins

#63. But sometimes, minding your own business isn't the right thing to do. Sometimes, you need to confront the evil in the world. I tried to ignore that for too long and people got hurt.

Elizabeth Hunter

#64. Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

Walter Lang

#65. There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

Jacopo Sannazaro

#66. I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.

Jon Fishman

#67. Racism today is the ultimate evil in the world

Pope Francis

#68. The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being.

Thomas Merton

#69. The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

Dean Rusk

#70. I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in the world?'

Richard Dawkins

#71. I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#72. There is sadness and evil in the world, yes. There is also goodness and beauty and justice. The one is as real as the other, and we must keep that fact firmly in mind or lose all sense of proportion.

Jeanne M. Dams

#73. The base of evil in the world is religion of any kind

George Carlin

#74. I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

H.G.Wells

#75. To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

Mahatma Gandhi

#76. 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

#77. She was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.

Paulo Coelho

#78. Up until the twentieth century, traditional cultures (and this is still true of most cultures in the world) always believed that too high a view of yourself was the root cause of all the evil in the world.

Timothy J. Keller

#79. It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

John Darnielle

#80. There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side

Nelson Mandela

#81. A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.

Norm MacDonald

#82. The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

C. G. Jung

#83. If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?

Patricia Briggs

#84. Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#85. Fear is the original sin," wrote John Foster. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.

L.M. Montgomery

#86. But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?

William Peter Blatty

#87. Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

Peter Singer

#88. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.

Howard Thurman

#89. In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

Rick Perry

#90. Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be?

Penny Matthews

#91. My point is there will always be vile men, just as there will always be men of kindness and compassion ... This world is a troubled, savage, place. It would, however, even be more ghastly if only evil men took time to master weapons. - Waylander from the book Hero in the Shadows by David Gemmell

David Gemmell

#92. You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

Nicolas Malebranche

#93. But when we crave power over life - endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality - then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#94. 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

#95. In principle you could hypertunnel from a Zone B world, but in practice you
can't get the tech together. The evil rays revel in chaotic class-three
and class-four zones.
Rudy Rucker, story notes, Mathies in Love

Rudy Rucker

#96. There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds.

Rick Perry

#97. What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

Terry Brooks

#98. You might not believe in the devil, but do you believe evil lurks in this world?

Nicki Elson

#99. It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

Michael Shannon

#100. Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.

Calvin Coolidge