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Evil Quotes by Thomas Merton
- To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to…
- The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of…
- Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is…
- In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who…
- The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
- The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which…
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