Evil Quotes · Page 182

The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame…

— Richard Dawkins

“That’s the kind of evil you should be scared of, the man who does vile things in the guise of doing good.”

— C.C. Tillery

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of…

— Charles Trevelyan

“In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil, but those whose own…

— Henry Fielding

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that…

— Lord Acton

I like Mr. Burns because he is pure evil. A lot of evil people make the mistake of diluting it. Never adulterate…

— Harry Shearer

Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do…

— John Rhys-Davies

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

— Ovid

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in…

— Ashley Montagu

There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil…

— George Carlin

Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of…

— Henry Hazlitt

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

We are politically correct, we are afraid to address the problem. Because if you address the problem like I do, people like…

— Geert Wilders

“I shall set down in a few lines how uptight Maldoror was during his early years, when he lived happy. There: done.…

— Comte de Lautréamont

The last six years afforded me much time and food for thought. I came to the conclusion that the human race is…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“The submission which you demand of yourself to the general fact of evil in the world, your apparent acquiescence in it, is…

— William James

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just…

— Chris Kraus

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In Washington, if someone disagrees with you, the problem must be your heart - you must be evil.

— Steve Southerland

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a…

— William Joyce

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

— Barry O'Farrell

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person.

— Hualing Nieh Engle

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good…

— Anonymous

Briefly after the 9/11 attacks, Republicans and Democrats were united in identifying the evil of the radical jihadists and fighting it.

— Pete Hoekstra

We have to cover everything with the Lord himself, not a false sort of optimism, not by blinding our eyes to the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will repent…

— Jeremiah

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

— Margaret Mead

When we burn the Ravana, we are symbolically destroying the evil in our society. We need to remember this after the Ramleela…

— Mukesh Rishi

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though…

— Michael Connelly

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

— John Stuart Mill

“The man who claimed money was the root of all evil had no idea what he was talking about. Different generations, or…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character…

— Michel Houellebecq

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

— Wallace Stevens

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

— Lytton Strachey

“No destiny is set by any birth. no matter how lowly or how high. All creatures have the right and ability to…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will…

— Bob Riley

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

— C. S. Lewis

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

— Martin Luther King, Jr