Quotes about Evil
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'
— Tertullian
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