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Evil Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one who loves you…
- Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism…
- Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
- In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of…
- One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
- By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if…
- We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . . Their…
- History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but…
- To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
- I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.…
- When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that…
- Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
- 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…
- My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is…
- They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.
- I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent…
- Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending…
- Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the…
- The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are…
- When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.
- My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.
- Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you…
- Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
- You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
- The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict…
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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