Quotes
Quotes about Evil
I love him because he is a human soul, and I regret that his pure humanity, which issued from the hand of a God in whom he does not believe, has been so foully sullied by the devils of greed and power which have clearly taken possession of him. I would like to purge him of those devils, but, in his perversity, he is happy to be possessed.
Let him be damned, let the devils of pride and lust and stupidity devour him
The human imagination is capable of a terrible amount of evil
Art is a division of heaven gratuitously given. Being quasi-divine, it is beyond human concerns... it is freely available to the morally evil as to the morally good
Art is a vision of heaven gratuitously given. Being quasi-divine, it is beyond human concerns... it is freely available to the morally evil as to the morally good
It has always been easier to point to examples of evil than of good
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of hand on hand, or mouth on mouth.
For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky to find one who's hacking at the roots.
A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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?
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
