Quotes about Evil
We will be greatly misled if we feel that the problem will work itself out. Structures of evil do not crumble by passive waiting. If history teaches anything, it is that evil is recalcitrant and determined, and never voluntarily relinquishes its hold short of an almost fanatical resistance. Evil must be attacked by a counteracting persistence, by the day-to-day assault of the battering rams of justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man's inhumanity to man is not only perpetrated by the vitriolic actions of those who are bad. It is also perpetrated by the vitiating inaction of those who are good.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
They have acted in the faith that right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
What we were really doing was withdrawing our cooperation from an evil system, rather than merely withdrawing our economic support from the bus company.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Avoid the moor in those hours of darkness when the powers of evil are exalted.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
— Ayn Rand