Evil Quote by Johann Gottfried Herder

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is…

— Rudolf Rocker

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

— William Ellery Channing

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

— Edmund Burke

Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

— Swami Vivekananda

Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

— Jacob Burckhardt

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

— Charles A. Reich

“The things I’ve seen," he continues easily, "have shown me that the only constant is change. Too much power in one place is a…

— Bill Blais

Evil perpetually tends to disappear.

— Herbert Spencer

. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .

— L. Frank Baum

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps…

— Irvin D. Yalom