Evil Quotes

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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do. — Gautama Buddha
The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and… — Gautama Buddha
To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God. — J. Budziszewski
All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil. — Timothy Keller
There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances. — Bree Despain
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and… — Plato
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. — Hesiod
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it — Hesiod
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. — Herodotus
What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to… — Gautama Buddha
Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. — Tony Hoare
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. — E. M. Forster
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. — Xunzi
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not. — Mencius
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us. — Charles Kingsley
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The Soviet Union is the focus of evil in the modern world. — Ronald Reagan
The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens… — Ronald Reagan
God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we… — Millard Fillmore
We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God. — George H. W. Bush

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