Quotes about Evil

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.

No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

The people who make wars, the people who reduce their fellows to slavery, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word—these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

The people who make wars, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word- these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.