Browsing Topic 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.

There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.

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

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

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.

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.

Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government

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.

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

Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

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.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

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.

Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.

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.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

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!

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

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.

To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

If ‘everything happens for a reason,’ then every act of evil is ultimately God’s doing.