Evil Quotes
5920 Evil quotes by 2751 unique authors
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Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the…
— P D Ouspensky
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To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.
— Henry Beston
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The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek…
— Mencius
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There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and…
— Sergei Lukyanenko
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Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous
— Joel C. Rosenberg
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Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
— Steven Saylor
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Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on? This must be…
— Ralph Abraham
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Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene…
— Philip Zimbardo
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We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate…
— Philip Zimbardo
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In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self…
— Robert Jay Lifton
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David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling others evil, he poses a…
— Robert Jay Lifton
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The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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They’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like 'grrrr!'’ and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil…
— Brian Johnson
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Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
— Richard Land
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As Earth warriors, we choose to be participants in the ancient battle between good and evil. On our side stand the waters and wind, and…
— Rod Coronado
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the…
— Basil Hume
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Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!
— William Shakespeare
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It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
— Seneca the Younger
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Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we…
— Saint Basil
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I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel trach. An inch more to the right…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality…
— John Burroughs
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The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if…
— David Starr Jordan
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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
— Brooks Atkinson
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National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre Dame University in…
— Rush Limbaugh
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