Best Evil Quotes

There is no greater evil than killing. I don’t care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America — none, whatsoever.

Man’s nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.

Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do. We’re yoked, and they’re free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.

Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!

Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.

I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what’s left?

Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, – our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

I always feel that there are two powers in the universe. There is good and there is evil and it depends what side you listen to and which path you decide to follow.

I think it’s relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn’t cost them anything. It doesn’t keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

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