Evil Quotes

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.

The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.

A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.

The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.

One evil receives strength from another. In the same way, good deeds also sprout one from another, and the one in whom they are found grows larger.

Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap the fruits of their evil intention.

The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.

Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought. Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.

But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.

Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.

If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.

Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings.