Evil Quotes

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I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.… — Unknown Author
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. — William James
Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good. — Unknown Author
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices — Paul Valery
We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke… — Mike Pence
To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.... — Richard Hofstadter
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with… — Richard Hofstadter
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive. — Lee Strobel
A baseball manager is a necessary evil. — Sparky Anderson
We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times. — Pope Pius X
The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our… — Pope Leo XIII
People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they… — Frank Ocean
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings… — John Rawls
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. — John Rawls
It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away… — Martin Buber
I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people… — Ross Macdonald
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil. — Charles Baudelaire
No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy… — Leo Strauss
We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to… — Harvey Mansfield
God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not… — Tom Lehrer
Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil… — Lois McMaster Bujold
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is… — Abraham Lincoln
The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above… — Unknown Author

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