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Evil Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
- The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity…
- There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart beating with love.…
- I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I…
- This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil…
- As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
- In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God,…
- I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
- When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
- As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine