Evil Quotes

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Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions… — Elbert Hubbard
When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain… — William James
I don't know where hell is ... another dimension, perhaps, or another plane of reality. As for getting there ... it's a choice between sinning… — Alan Grant
It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that… — Pope Benedict XVI
A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the… — Muhammad
It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No man… — Frederick William Robertson
Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that… — Herbert Hoover
Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a… — Josef Pieper
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil. — Aristotle
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than… — Richard Dawkins
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years. — Edmund Burke
The majority of human conflict comes from people just feeling disrespected. — Paul K. Chappell
The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways. — Mike Lofgren
Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this is so. .… — M. Scott Peck
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities,… — M. Scott Peck
I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They… — M. Scott Peck
Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the… — Pope Benedict XVI

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