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Evil Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be…
- Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
- Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
- It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think…
- If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts…
- If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such…
- The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than…
- Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have…
- Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.
- My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.
- The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing…
- Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have…
- To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of…
- I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I…
- Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.
- Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
- Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.
More Evil Quotes
- 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