Quotes about Evil
Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.
— Euripides
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.
— George W. Bush
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
— GK Chesterton
Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
— GK Chesterton
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.
— Martin Luther
It takes a man to make a devil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.