3,115 Quotes About Evil

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

To resist him that is set in authority is evil

I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

He that doth righteousness; that is, righteousness which the gospel calleth so, is righteous; that is, precedent to, or before he doth that righteousness. For he doth not say, he shall make his person righteous by acts of righteousness that he shall do; for then an evil tree may bear good fruit, yea, and make itself good by doing so; but he saith, He that doth righteousness is righteous; as he saith, He that doth righteousness is born of him.

After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

Russian talk of political evil is as natural as eating ...