3,115 Quotes About Evil

There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?

Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that county alone....There must be a remedy for such a crying evil as this.

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

The ends and means are a seamless web.

Evil perpetually tends to disappear.