Evil Quotes - page 3

Evil draws men together. (Aristotle)
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. View quote
Horace Mann
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. View quote
Blaise Pascal
The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity. View quote
Maria Montessori
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? View quote
Ayn Rand
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. View quote
Thomas Hardy
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. (W. Somerset Maugham)
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. View quote
Petrarch
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. View quote
Simone Weil
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. View quote
Edmund Burke
No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. View quote
Zeno of Citium
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. View quote
W. H. Auden
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. View quote
John Ruskin
In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which. View quote
George R. R. Martin
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots. (Karen Blixen)
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. View quote
Elie Wiesel
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. View quote
Anne Rice
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. View quote
Henry Miller
America is not a young land it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. View quote
William S. Burroughs
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