3,115 Quotes About Evil

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

And the recompense of evil is punishment like it, but whoever forgives and amends, he shall have his reward from Allah; surely He does not love the unjust.

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin begins is a matter as to which casuists differ. One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent. But I doubt whether modern authorities would agree with him on this point.

One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.