Concepts Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

— Daniel Defoe

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If one evil eats at the moral fiber of human life in this world that could be termed as Mother of Evils, it is…

— T Joseph Benziger

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

— Samuel Johnson

Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That…

— Simone Weil

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity…

— Bryan Singer

Evil is that which one believes of others.

— H. L. Mencken

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

— Rollo May

“Evil can't be scientifically defined: it's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably been linked…

— Spencer Reid

The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer