Quotes about Evil

Avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted.

I have hitherto confined my investigations to this world," said he. "In a modest way I have combated evil, but to take on the Father of Evil himself would, perhaps, be too ambitious a task. Yet you must admit that the footmark is material.

It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. We have broken the laws. The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!

Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

Evil is the absence of God. This means that in the space between Man and God, evil exists. And this space is necessary because God had to give us a choice. He had to give us space to choose to love and obey Him.

Evil's ultimate goal is to divide us and separate us from God," he said. He distracts, discourages, distorts, and creates doubt so that we will be divided from God, divided from each other and from ourselves.