Quotes on Evil

We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.

The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity, and it's love.

It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.