Evil Quotes - Page 8

• I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Creating

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.4.

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• Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

  Denis Diderot

  Genius, World, Fame

  "Dictionary of Foreign Quotations". Book by Mary Collison and Robert L. Collison, p. 98, 1980.

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• Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

  Bertrand Russell

  Humility, Men, People

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “Unpopular Essays”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wisdom, Peace, Fun

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.

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• Pchem is the root of all evil.

  Daniel Lee

  Roots

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• Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Thinking, World

  John Ruskin (1851). “The Stones of Venice: The foundations”, p.44

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• The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

  M. Scott Peck

  Change, Integrity, Heart

  M. Scott Peck (2015). “The People Of The Lie”, p.290, Random House

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• Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world

  Marquis de Sade

  Fashion, People, World

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Good Man, Bombs

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• May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

  Richard Cecil

  Beauty, Beautiful, Years

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• No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Men, Justified

  In Works, Memorial edition (1925) vol. 15, p. 388 "Latitude and Longitude among Reformers"

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• War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Peace

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

  Molly Ivins

  Truth, Believe, Ignorance

  Molly Ivins (1992). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, Vintage

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• When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

  Augustus William Hare

  Hearing, Refrain, Talkers

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.255

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• There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Perfectly Good, Evil People

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.169, e-artnow

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• Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

  Aristotle

  Revenge, Men, Liberty

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Inequality is the root of social evil.

  Pope Francis

  Roots, Social, Inequality

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. April 28, 2014.

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• All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Light, Shadow, Orbs

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• Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

  Ayn Rand

  Life Changing, Passion, Mean

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

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• Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

  Hesiod

  Gains, Disaster

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• Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

  John Henry Newman

  Excess, Substance, Corruption

  John Henry Newman, Dave Armstrong (2012). “The Quotable Newman: A Definitive Guide to His Central Thoughts and Ideas”, p.151, Sophia Institute Press

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• The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

  Walter Martin

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Cooperation, Moral, Protest

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• Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

  Robert Southey

  Mean, Men, Soul

  Robert Southey (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society”, p.221

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