Quotes about Evil
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
- Calvin Coolidge
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
- Samuel Johnson
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.
- Samuel Johnson
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
- St. Basil
Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.
- Elisabeth Elliot
The best way to fight evil is to do some good. Let me qualify that—the best way to fight evil at home is to do some good. The best way to fight them abroad is to unleash the military.
- George W. Bush
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
- Mark Twain
A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.
- Martin Luther
Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.
- Martin Luther
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
- AW Tozer