Quotes about Evil

The greatest evil is physical pain.

Rivka believed that HaShem was both all-good and all-powerful—so good that he created people, so powerful that he gave them free will. And that made evil possible. If men could not choose evil, then they were not free. Therefore, the existence of evil was proof of HaShem's great power to create those who could choose to oppose him.

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

When the biblical premise of man being evil by nature is forsaken, society begins to believe that a criminal isn't really responsible for his crimes. People believe instead that societal conditions and life's circumstances are responsible, so the criminal gets a slap on the hand for violent crime since evil is no longer called evil. The lawbreaker is deemed rather to be sick or insane, and he receives rehabilitative treatment rather than punishment.

I regard anticommunism as a matter of principle an evil even greater than communism itself.

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.