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Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil. — Os Guinness

Evil contained is not evil destroyed. — Terry Brooks

Evil is something you need to fight until it ceases trying to control you. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

There is no evil. There is no good. There is only life, and the absence of life. — Brodi Ashton

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. — Dante Alighieri

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism ... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness. — Rudolf Steiner

The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing. — Albert Einstein

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Imagine how extraordinary the world would be if everyone believed the only man capable of evil ... is himself. — Ivy Yuelle

It is important to remember that good overcomes evil — Sunday Adelaja

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The power is neither evil not good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use. — Terry Goodkind

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying
that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature. — Marcus Aurelius

Line in nature is not found;
Unit and universe are round;
In vain produced, all rays return;
Evil will bless, and ice will burn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. — Pope Francis

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them. — Voltaire

The fear of God is to depart from evil. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. — J.K. Rowling

The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act. — Dean Koontz

What you're calling evil, is part of human nature. — Nikolas Schreck

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. — Henry Ford

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. — Mahatma Gandhi

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. — Theodore Roosevelt

Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds — Munia Khan

God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil. — Kedar Joshi

If collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil. — A.E. Samaan

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation. — George Washington

Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? — G.K. Chesterton

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. — Thornton Wilder

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil. — Nazr Mohammed

It's simple my heart is made from love and love will always beat hate any day and anywhere! No amount of evil can ever conquer me. — Angel Ramon Medina

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property. — Thomas Paine

Why do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil. — Mark T. Barnes

California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils. — Jon Stewart

But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory!" Alisher — Sergei Lukyanenko

When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them. — John Flavel

Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name. — Glenn Beck

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die! — Gerry Lindgren

Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained. — G.K. Chesterton

The ability of one to affect many is scaling exponentially - and it's scaling for good and it's scaling for evil. — Marc Goodman

If an act of evil is to stain my soul, it will be for one of my own. — A. Zavarelli

Evil is more famous than goodness. — Toba Beta

This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. — Aleister Crowley

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason. — Barack Obama

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. — Henry David Thoreau

Evil is like a pathogen that enters a system, be it an individual, nation-state, or world-system, and exploits that system, knocking it off balance. — Paul Levy

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good. — George Eliot

You speak evil of that which is fair beyond the reach of your thought, and only little wit can excuse you. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. — Wilhelm Steinitz

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility. — Matthew Henry

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child. — Don King

Why is our media quick to find evil in our local police, but tnot in Islamic terror? — Greg Gutfeld

The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil. — Sarada Devi

God is a necessary evil. — Manoj Vaz

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

Find good in what the world says is evil. — Chuck Palahniuk

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it's somebody's job and not yours. — Israelmore Ayivor

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. — John Locke

A thing doesn't have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not evil or malicious. — Frank Delaney

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. — Ralph Steadman

Mr. Gabriel is clearly insane, evil and dangerous and insane (and let's not forget, you know, a demon). — Michelle Knudsen

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. — Chester A. Arthur

The wicked ones make us better persons for those that deserve our attention. Nothing is really lost and wasted in this alchemical dance of life. — Robin Sacredfire

AhthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell."
"It sounds evil."
"It is," I answered, and we parted. — Gail Carson Levine

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. — Richard John Neuhaus

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true. — Richard Dawkins

Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good. — William, Saroyan

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. — Anonymous

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. — Louisa May Alcott

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do. — Alan Dershowitz

To be slightly evil is to embrace life. — Venkatesh G. Rao

The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief. — George Orwell

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world. — L.M. Montgomery

Malevolence is shameful but satisfying. — Mason Cooley

The best tactic against evil isn't confront with him, otherwise is to get away from him — Miguel El Portugues

Christians need to take a stand for what is right and not let evil go unchallenged. — Billy Graham

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. — Alice Walker

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness. — Aldous Huxley

The past is one evil less and one memory more. — Elbert Hubbard

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. — Richard Dawkins

Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.' — Janet Morris

The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms. — Taya Kyle

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck. — Gautama Buddha

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories. — John Adams

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear. — Dennis Hopper

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. — Philip Gourevitch

Countless millions who have walked this earth before us have gone through this, so this is just an experience we all share. — Ted Bundy

Never do an evil act just because it is trivial; never leave a good act undone just because it's small. — Liu Bei

He is incredibly handsome. You never realized before how beautiful evil could be. — Teresa Lo

Evil is cruel;
folly is deceptive;
together they are destruction. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There is more goodness than evil in the world, but you know, you still got to work at it. — Lasky Kathryn

The problem of evil ... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it? — William Temple