Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
~ Haile Selassie
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
~ Philip Zimbardo
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
~ M. Scott Peck
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
~ Tony Blair
I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?
~ Steve Harvey
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
~ Patricia Cornwell
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
~ John Stuart Mill
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
~ Douglas Macarthur
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
~ Carroll Quigley
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
~ Eric Hoffer
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
~ John Rawls
Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
~ Vernon Howard
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
~ Desmond Tutu
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
~ Epicurus
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
~ Anne Rice
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.
~ Millard Fillmore
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
~ Pat Robertson
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
~ Gérard De Nerval
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
~ A. E. Waite
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is insufficient knowledge. We lack the theological will to do it.
~ Jonathan Kozol
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
~ Herodotus
That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
~ Kenneth Scott Latourette
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
~ Samuel Butler
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
~ Simone Weil
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
~ James Smithson
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
~ Milan Kundera
When the U.S. claims the right to invade any country unilaterally and then defines a country like Iran or North Korea as 'evil,' then it is a rational response for these countries to develop nuclear weapons as the only military deterrent to invasion. We create what we most fear.
~ Dean Ornish
When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.
~ Ray Comfort
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
~ Aristotle
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
~ Hans Bender
I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
~ Hulk Hogan
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
~ Ben Stein
The greatest evil is physical pain.
~ Saint Augustine
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
~ Frank A. Clark
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
~ Petrarch
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
~ Ellis Peters
Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.
~ John Rhys-Davies
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
~ Plautus
