Evil Quotes · Page 212

Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither…

— John Knox

There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil…

— Saint Augustine

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is…

— Ayn Rand

She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they…

— Sam Harris

Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on…

— John Locke

Anti-capitalism is nothing new in Hollywood. From 'Wall-E' to 'Avatar,' corporations are routinely depicted as evil. The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing…

— Mark Fisher

Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that…

— H. P. Blavatsky

The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I…

— Jon Bon Jovi

The evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priesthood, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance, drink, war, pestilence, nor any of the…

— George Bernard Shaw

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death,…

— Anonymous

“We humans can spend our whole lives pondering the meaning of ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ but we will never be able to figure…

— Soko Morinaga

When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented…

— M. Scott Peck

I would never say they look exactly the same, but what I would say is that the differences are not enough to…

— Jill Stein

Believers know that the presence of evil is always accompanied by the presence of good, by grace... Where evil grows, there the…

— Pope John Paul II

“With absolute power, corruption and evil seep in humanity, and that evil continues to flourish as the good of humankind lies idle…

— Anonymous

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What…

— Dorothy Day

If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a…

— Douglas Coupland

Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's…

— Jim Wright

I do not believe it makes sense to say that nuclear weapons are inherently evil. In certain circumstances, they can play a…

— Des Browne

Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or…

— Butch Vig

By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We…

— Bill Bright

Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them…

— Thomas Aquinas

No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and…

— David Spangler

The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil…

— Terry Pratchett

“We do not believe in evil anymore, only evil acts that can be explained away by the science of the mind. There…

— Anonymous

It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her…

— Jane Austen

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of…

— Plato

If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of…

— Anthony Burgess

If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He…

— Peter Kreeft

In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a…

— Maimonides

A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person…

— Harriet Martineau

One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value…

— Thomas Paine

“God,” she cried, “what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth…

— Djuna Barnes