Quotes on Evil

Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.

Jesus’ Cross shows the full force of evil, but also the full power of God’s mercy.

Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.

I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. The combination of all the tendencies to the good has produced the best; but as there are goods that are incompatible together, this combination and this result can introduce the destruction of some good, and as a result some evil.

I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is left of our anemic democracy. And those who continue to participate in the vaudeville of a two-party process, who refuse to confront in every way possible the structures of corporate power, assure our mutual destruction.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

Dearest brothers and sisters who are so persecuted, I know how much you suffer, I know that you are stripped of everything. I am with you in the faith of the one who has conquered evil!

We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of violence, injustice and sin.

The secret of Christian living is love. Only love fills the empty spaces caused by evil.

Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?