Quotes on Evil

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it with you.