Quotes about Evil
Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
- Peter Kreeft
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
- Dennis Prager
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
- Tertullian
Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
- Ted Dekker
The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...
- Walt Disney
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
- Aristotle
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
- AW Tozer
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
- Hannah More