3,115 Quotes About Evil


  • Author Steve Allen
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    One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

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  • Author Steve Allen
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    Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

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  • Author Theodor Adorno
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    Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

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  • Author Thomas Aquinas
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    We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.

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  • Author W. H. Auden
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    Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

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  • Author Washington Allston
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    It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

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