Evil Quotes

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When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a… — Hannah Arendt
The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle… — Anna Brownell Jameson
A good end sanctify evil means; not must we ever do evil, that good might come of it. We are ready to retaliate, rather than… — William Penn
It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to… — Arundhati Roy
There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil. — Bob Dole
We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang. — Christopher Hitchens
Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them. — Herbert Hoover
When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice. — John A. Macdonald
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good. — Bernard Crick
I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated… — Milton Friedman
There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils.… — Milton Friedman
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. — Simone Weil
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam… — Olive Schreiner
How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His… — Joseph Heller
And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on… — Robert Southey
The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good,… — Margaret Visser
I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion — H.G. Wells
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness. — Unknown Author
People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to… — Glenn T. Seaborg
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them. — Mahatma Gandhi
We don't need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength… — Mother Teresa
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid. — Ronald Reagan

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