Evil Quote by M. Scott Peck

People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Lord Manu had said it's not people who are evil. True evil exists beyond them. It attracts people. It causes confusion amongst its enemies.…

— Amish Tripathi

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is…

— Arthur Koestler

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

— Bob Riley

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

— Tim Kaine

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them…

— Kate Constable

Evil is not power; it is ignorance and misuse of good.

— James Allen

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

— Samuel Johnson

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and…

— James Russell Lowell