Quotes about Evil

The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom.

it's at least possible that God is wise enough to foresee that we need some pain for reasons which we may not understand but which he foresees as being necessary to some eventual good. Therefore, he's not being evil by allowing that pain to exist.

He can even use the bad things of life to bring about his ultimate purposes and ends. "That doesn't mean those things aren't bad—they really are bad. But they're all within the sovereignty of God. Even good can come out of evil.

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 Women

The knowledge of what is good without practicing it, turns frequently to evil. —C. MARTELLI, FENCING MASTER

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

Evil is the absence of God.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.