Quotes on Evil

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die.

Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts' where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters.

Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people. There can be no cause or grievance that could ever justify such unspeakable violence. Indeed, such an attack is an assault not only on the targets but an offense against the freedom and rights of all civilized nations.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.