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

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. — Plato

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace
to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We'll know for the first time If we're evil or divine We're the last in line. — Ronnie James Dio

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. — Rutherford B. Hayes

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil. — Alice Hoffman

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can. — Harold S. Kushner

If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase. — Pope Paul VI

The sooner the jihadis go up to their imagined #heaven, the sooner our earth would be a heaven. — Fakeer Ishavardas

With each daunting step, the armor I'd always worn like a protective cloak unraveled, and my footing faltered. — E.R. Pierce

Evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it ... — John Geddes

Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality. — Steve Maraboli

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. — James F. Cooper

I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars. — John Wycliffe

To say time is evil because evil happens in time is like saying the ocean is a fish because fish happen in the ocean. — Christopher Isherwood

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

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured. — Anthony Burgess

No accumulation of good, no matter how vast, undoes an evil; no rescue of the future, no matter how successful, undoes a murder in the past. — Timothy Snyder

a social deformity perhaps more hideous than the evil rich man: the evil poor. — Suzanne Uber

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil. — Stefan Molyneux

If the United States doesn't lead then evil triumphs — Dennis Prager

Watching the abuse and worry he dealt with firsthand made me see how time and fear could shape a person into someone who is, by most accounts, evil. — Kiera Cass

One way to drive home the futility and evil of war is to tap the distancing power of satire. — Steven Pinker

God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil. — Mark Hart

He grinned, a very dark and evil grin ... the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas. — Cameo Renae

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. — Plato

Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing. — Tom Dreesen

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends. — Walter E. Williams

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. — Carl Sandburg

There is great unanimity among the dissolute.
[Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.] — Juvenal

Ceaselessly, evil battles with good, right clashes with wrong, darkness comes against the light, and the counterfeit struggles to supplant the real. — Bob Larson

Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Donald E. Knuth [ — Joshua Bloch

When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had. — Ambrose Bierce

Black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue — Euripides

The devil prince of this world, but this world don't last so long for mortal man. — Jean Rhys

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid. — Dean Koontz

The beginning of evil is heedlessness. — Poemen

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be. — Alton Brown

It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

Hate will destroy you. Let love be the basis of which you live your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

That's the shame about Miles Copeland; he's evil, but he's got a heart of gold. — Dave Wakeling

Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil. — Chris Hayes

I do not believe in a mixture of good and evil in the world, or in myself. All is Good. — Emma Curtis Hopkins

Never leave the door open at this hour, or evil may come to you. — W.B.Yeats

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men. — Edmund Burke

Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be. — Slade Combs

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

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. — George Orwell

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

We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions — Dennis Prager

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism. — Alan Keyes

I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally. — John Ortberg

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. — Desmond Tutu

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor. — Gustave De Molinari

Evil's a thing of the mind. We humans got the full measure of it ourselves.
Is that right? Are you evil, Sarah Mary?
I ain't good. — Alden Bell

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. — Thomas Jefferson

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within. — David Gemmell

Many people make devices that can be used for good or evil. You cannot blame the blacksmith when the swords he crafts are used to kill. — Lindsay Buroker

The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil. — Hannah More

intended to repel Evil, which are the constant Accompaniment to their Conversations with myself. — Diana Gabaldon

Plunder, ravage and kill; the secret works of the repugnant. Since the fall of man and brother killing brother, evil has owned the night. — Dennis F. Larsen

When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil. — Max Lerner

If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil & don't get caught.' — Peter Thiel

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

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty. — Angelina Jolie

Find another way; choosing the lessor of the evils still is evil. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person. — Eric Hoffer

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. — Desmond Tutu

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept. — Wei Wu Wei

True nonresistance is the one true resistance to evil. It kills and finally destroys the evil sentiment. — Leo Tolstoy

people don't generally believe themselves to be evil. Just strong. And they think that the world owes them something — Mary Elizabeth Summer

Meghann knew however strong the evil inside Simon Baldevar was, it was tempered by the love he had for her and their children. — Trisha Baker

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

What evil lies in the hearts of some? I cannot fathom it. — Sasha Summers

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

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded. — Julius Nyerere

The best known evil is the most tolerable. — Livy

If I become like you, then how can I live with all the things I've done? - X-10 — Donna Galanti

It was the forest's fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps ... — Tanith Lee

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil. — Sholem Asch

Blogs are evil. Actually, the blogs aren't as evil as blog comments. — Christine Teigen

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits. — Raheel Farooq

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. — John Ruskin

The beauty in this world was hidden by filth and lies while evil was painted in beauty and smiles. — Pepper Winters

The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you. — Barrows Dunham

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The evil plan is most harmful to the planner — Homer

The clown was an evil one. They're either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter. — Chris Thrall

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

The truth is nobody here is as stupid or evil as I let on. Except me. — Chuck Palahniuk

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. — John Petit-Senn

Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work — Sunday Adelaja

The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins

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