Evil Quotes

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  Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Hell, Tempest

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.164, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

  Albert Einstein

  Evil People, World, Threatened

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• The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, Fighting, Support

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.285, Vintage

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• In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

  Karl Marx

  Honesty, Past, Men

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.594, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.

  Albert Einstein

  Heart, Men, Light

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• About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination. I cannot prove to you there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws

  Albert Einstein

  Liars, Believe, Thinking

  "Einstein and the poet". Book by William Hermanns, p. 132, 1983.

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• I love Satan. Christianity is so boring. If Star Wars didn't have that evil imprint, they wouldn't sell two tickets. Satan sells tickets. That dude, Darth Maul, he was down with Satan. Put it this way, Satan loves to party, he loves to f**k and he loves to eat rich, delicious food. Actually that sounds a lot like Kyle Gass (his bandmate).

  Jack Black

  Stars, War, Party

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• God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

  Peter Straub

  Views, Fiction, Causes

  Peter Straub (2015). “Shadowland”, p.249, Penguin

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• Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Lying, Islamic

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• The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

  Immanuel Kant

  War, Evil People, Tyranny

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• Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

  Immanuel Kant

  War, Men, Order

  Immanuel Kant (2007). “Perpetual Peace”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Ideas, Dangerous, Interest

  General Theory of Employment (1936; 1947 ed.) ch. 24

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• To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.

  Anton Chekhov

  Passion, Writing, Play

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• The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil
  assumes the living shape of the Jew.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Mein Kampf, Shapes

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Criminals

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• Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Pain, Ignorance

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.109, ShandonPress

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• Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil
  We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people

  Eminem

  People, Hip Hop, Tree

  Song: Bad Meets Evil

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• You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root.

  Khalil Gibran

  Roots, Giving, Receiving

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Science, Judgement

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.208, Palgrave Macmillan

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• That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Pain, Powerful, Views

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• What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Men, Land

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.79, Vintage

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• The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

  Albert Einstein

  Compassion, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

  Abraham Maslow

  People

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• Where there is no respect for life, there you will find evil.

  O.R. Melling

  No Respect

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• It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Wickedness, Facts

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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