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Evil Quotes by M. Scott Peck
- Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid…
- Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this is so. .…
- 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,…
- 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…
- The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in…
- Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive…
- Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church.…
More Evil Quotes
- 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