Evil Quotes

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Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Looks like what drives me crazyDon't have no effect on you--But I'm gonna keep on at itTill it drives you crazy, too.

Active evil is better than passive good

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

…all the evils of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings.

The anti-mind is the anti-life.

There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leprous.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves, / Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?[Written after an earthquake in Lisbon killed over 15, 000 people]

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.