Evil Quotes
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another.
I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.
Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world
I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.
Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.
Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.
A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.
If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes.
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.
The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.
Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death