Quotes about Evil
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil—widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
- George Eliot
The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.
- George Eliot
We prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil which gradually determines character.
- George Eliot
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.
- Ellen White
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
- Pope Benedict XVI
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
- Ambrose of Milan
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
- St. Augustine
For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?
- St. Augustine
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
- Samuel Johnson
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection
- Samuel Johnson
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
- Dorothy Sayers