--- title: "1 Evil Exist Quotes By Fulton J. Sheen" description: "1 Evil Exist quotes by Fulton J. Sheen. Plus more from Fulton J. Sheen and more Evil Exist sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/041/fulton-j-sheen-675_automobile_evil-is-thus-a-kind-of-parasite-on-goodn_428685.png" --- > [Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that there cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/evil-is-thus-a-kind-of-parasite-on-goodness-if-there-were-no-good-by/) [Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/041/fulton-j-sheen-675_automobile_evil-is-thus-a-kind-of-parasite-on-goodn_428685.png) ## More by Fulton J. Sheen > [The Rosary is the book of the blind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/the-rosary-is-the-book-of-the-blind/) [Fulton J. 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Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/) > [“The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/the-mathematical-method-is-disinterested-in-the-efficient-cause-and/) [Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/) > [“The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/the-church-makes-no-man-less-free-than-he-was-before-but-we-chiefly/) [Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/) > [“To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/to-those-who-rejected-him-righteousness-would-one-day-appear-as-a/) [Fulton J. 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