Evil Quotes - page 4

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. (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
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. View quote
Joseph Addison
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. View quote
William Penn
Only lies and evil come from letting people off. View quote
Iris Murdoch
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. View quote
Mary Renault
Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like. View quote
Anton LaVey
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. (Adlai Stevenson II)
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. View quote
Jerry Garcia
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. View quote
William Beveridge
This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good. View quote
Howard Dean
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. View quote
Bertrand Russell
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. View quote
Linus Torvalds
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. View quote
Albert Camus
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us. (Charles Kingsley)
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. Remember, they were men of God who destroyed the educational treasures at Alexandria, who perpetrated the Inquisition in Spain, who burned the witches at Salem. Over 25,000 organized religions flourish on this planet, but the followers of each think all the others are miserably misguided and probably evil as well. View quote
Frank Sinatra
Active Evil is better than Passive Good. View quote
William Blake
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. View quote
Richard Dawkins
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