Community Quote by James Woods

Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be…

— Susanne Bier

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 the refusal to see one's self in others.

— Richard Powers

Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

— Simone Weil

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

Evil is that which one believes of others.

— H. L. Mencken

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“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

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…

— Richard Dawkins

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value

— Konrad Lorenz