3,115 Quotes About Evil




  • Author Jim Holt
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    I find it hard to swallow the notion that the world is improved by extra suffering. And that goes for a lot of Christian doctrine. Jones commits a crime, so you expiate the evil by nailing Smith to a cross and it's all better. - John Leslie

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  • Author Darmie Orem
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    The inner suffering of the evil you do to others is not fully understood until you are wearing their aches.

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  • Author Arthur Schopenhauer
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    the origin of wickedness is the cliff upon which theism, just as much as pantheism, is wrecked; for both imply optimism. However, evil and sin, both in their terrible magnitude, cannot be disavowed; indeed, because of the promised punishments for the latter, the former is only further increased. Whence all this, in a world that is either itself a God or the well-intentioned work of a God?

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