3,115 Quotes About Evil

  • Author Teju Cole
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    The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.

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  • Author Thomas Carlyle
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    In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

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  • Author Thomas Carlyle
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    There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.

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  • Author Thomas Carlyle
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    The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

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  • Author Thomas Carlyle
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    Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

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  • Author Tony Campolo
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    When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

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