Character Quote by Charles Trevelyan

“Famine is good to the corn-merchant, evil to the poor, and indifferent to those whose fortunes can at all times command a superfluity. Ambition…

— Christopher Hitchens

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as…

— James Woods

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

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

— Ernest Becker

The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect…

— Thomas Merton

“Evil is like a pathogen that enters a system, be it an individual, nation-state, or world-system, and exploits that system, knocking it off balance.”

— Paul Levy

There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.

— Mother Teresa

The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny…

— Sam Keen

In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be…

— James Stephens

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so…

— Angelina Jolie

“And how can evil be the mere absence of good? Is genocide the absence of something, of what? Of kindness? Were there no kind…

— T.J. Kirk

In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice…

— Gregory Stock