Evil Quotes

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Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value — Konrad Lorenz
Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant… — Jacque Fresco
It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways. — Jacque Fresco
The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory… — Philip Gourevitch
The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder.… — Ken Wilber
The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. Â… — Aleister Crowley
This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!'… — Aleister Crowley
What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer… — Eliphas Levi
People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they… — Emanuel Swedenborg
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how… — Emanuel Swedenborg
Ignorance is the mother of all evils. — Francois Rabelais
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. — William Godwin
Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not. — Lawrence Block
The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear… — Tacitus
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity. — Quintilian
We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames… — Richard Rohr
You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money… — Huey Long
Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is two-fold. By daily… — Ammon Hennacy
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons...… — Fulton J. Sheen
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is… — A J Muste
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us… — Corrie Ten Boom
Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself. — Laozi
Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that… — Unknown Author
Unfortunately, I have realized that we cannot completely erase all the evil from the world, but we can change the way we deal with it,… — Zlata FilipoviÄ‡
Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others — Matthieu Ricard

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