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Quotes
on Evil
If
it were easier to choose to do the right thing,
wouldn't people be more likely to do it?
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
Maybe peace on earth is an impossible dream, but
if we changed the rules, this world could be so
much better.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
Let
us face squarely the paradox that the world which
goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring
peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil
intentions, but on the whole of good intentions
which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not
usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong,
but is the outcome of policies pursued by good
men usually passionately convinced that they are
right.
-- Norman
Angell
*
The
sad truth is that most evil is done by people
who never make up their minds to be either good
or evil.
-- Hannah
Arendt
Fear
is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
-- Aristotle
Nobody
is more dangerous than he who imagines himself
pure in heart, for his purity, by definition,
is unassailable.
-- James
Baldwin
The
humblest individual exerts some influence, either
for good or evil, upon others.
-- Henry
Ward Beecher
When
good people in any country cease their vigilance
and struggle, then evil men prevail.
-- Pearl
S. Buck
Race
prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored
it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow
is darkest over those who feel it least and allow
its evil effects to go on.
-- Pearl
S. Buck
War
may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter
how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good.
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
-- Jimmy
Carter
*The
exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard
for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech,
widespread and racial discrimination -- all these
evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.
-- René
Samuel Cassin
"The
world is a dangerous place to live, not because
of the people who are evil, but because of the
people who don't do anything about it." --
Albert
Einstein
"This
crippling of individuals I consider the worst
evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system
suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive
attitude is inculcated into the student, who is
trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation
for his future. I am convinced there is only one
way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through
the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied
by an educational system which would be oriented
toward social goals."
-- Albert
Einstein
I
do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good
and punishes evil.
-- Albert
Einstein
The
meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is
simply helping or hurting.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"I
object to violence because when it appears to
do good, the good is only temporary; the evil
it does is permanent." -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
Non-cooperation
with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation
with good. -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
Capital
as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that
is evil. Capital in some form or other will always
be needed. -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
I
have also seen children successfully surmounting the
effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity
being an inherent attribute of the soul. -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has
been know to yield to the influence of love. You must
never despair of human nature. -- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
*
"The aim of torture is to destroy a person as
a human being, to destroy their identity and soul.
It is more evil than murder... Today we know that
survivors of torture can be helped to regain their
health and strength, and in helping them we take
the weapon from their torturers. They sought the
destruction of other human beings. We have proved
that they have not succeeded."
-- Inge
Genefke
At least two thirds of our miseries spring from
human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators
and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism,
dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious
or political idols.
~ Aldous
Huxley
I
believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth. -- Molly
Ivins
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and
oppressions of body and mind will vanish like
evil spirits at the dawn of day.
~ Thomas
Jefferson
By
a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall
stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the
press, freedom of commerce against monopolies,
trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of
the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are
fetters against doing evil which no honest government
should decline.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
Science
may have found a cure for most evils; but it has
found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the
apathy of human beings.
-- Helen
Keller
*
I
believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty
is evil.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
What
is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists,
is not that they are extreme, but that they are
intolerant. The evil is not what they say about
their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved
in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who
accepts evil without protesting against it is
really cooperating with it.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
I
believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word in reality. This is why
right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than
evil triumphant. -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
“I
became convinced that noncooperation with evil
is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation
with good.” --
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
Have
we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that
we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction
of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars
- must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the
dark abyss of annihilation. -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
"The
principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile
the truths of two opposites - acquiescence and violence
- while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.
The nonviolent resister agress with the person who acquisces
that one should not be physically agressive toward his
opponent; but he balances the equation by agreeing with
the person of violence that evil must be resisted. He
avoids the nonresistance of the former and the violent
resistance of the latter. With nonviolent resistance,
no invidual or group need to submit to any wrong, nor
need anyone resort to violence in order to right a wrong."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
In
our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery,
Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a
synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the
Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available
to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity.
It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring
about a solution to the race problem in America. His
spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that
it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to
violence. -- Martin
Luther King, Jr
That
is the America which stands not in pursuit of
an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis
of hope and faith and peace and freedom.
-- Dennis
Kucinich
*
“Let
us not become the evil that we deplore.”
-- Barbara
Lee
The
dread of evil is a much more forcible principle
of human actions than the prospect of good.
-- John
Locke
I
see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not
just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential
to make life unlivable on this planet.
--
Bernard
Lown
We
frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest
good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest
evil. Change will only come about when each of us
takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more
forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all
joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of
grace, we can change as those around us can change
too.
-- Mairead
Corrigan Maguire
*
Massive
poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible
scourges of our times -- times in which the world
boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology,
industry and wealth accumulation -- that they
have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as
social evils.
-- Nelson
Mandela
“Conquer
the devils with a little thing called love!”
-- Bob
Marley
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser
evil, but one must never label a necessary evil
as good.
-- Margaret
Mead
A person may cause evil to others not only by
his actions but by his inaction, and in either
case he is justly accountable to them for the
injury.
-- John
Stuart Mill
The
task of the educator lies in seeing that the child
does not confound good with immobility and evil
with activity.
-– Maria
Montessori
*
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation
of violence and the development of nonviolent
means to combat evil and advance the good.
-- A.
J. Muste
A
long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it
a superficial appearance of being right.
-- Thomas
Paine.
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
I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory
view of good and evil. I believe this is a big
world full of men, women, and children who struggle
to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families,
their beliefs, and their dreams.
-- Sean
Penn
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must
we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
-- William
Penn
*
"This
is the way of peace:
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth,
and hatred with love." -- Peace
Pilgrim
*
"This
is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good,
falsehood with truth, and hatred with love." -- Peace
Pilgrim
To
prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when
a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one
will choose the greater when he might have the less.
- Plato
Knowledge
becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
- Plato
In
order more deeply to affect the minds of the citizens
of the United States with the blessings of peace,
by contrasting them with the evils of war, let the
following inscriptions be painted upon the sign
which is placed over the door of the War Office:
1. An office for butchering the human species. 2.
A Widow and Orphan making office. 3. A broken bone
making office. 4. A Wooden leg making office. 5.
An office for the creating of public and private
vices. 6. An office for creating a public debt.
7. An office for creating speculators, stock Jobbers,
and Bankrupts. 8. An office for creating famine.
9. An office for creating pestilential diseases.
10. An office for creating poverty, and the destruction
of liberty, and national happiness.
-- Benjamin
Rush
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to
know the facts are more likely to achieve good
than those who view the world through the distorting
medium of their own desires. -- Bertrand
Russell
*
"The
greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty."
-- George
Bernard Shaw
False
words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect
the soul with evil.
- Socrates
One
who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on
no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it
is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any
man, however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as
evil as those who steal from the public purse.
-- Adlai
Stevenson
We
don't need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring
peace - just get together, love one another, bring
that peace, that joy, that strength of presence
of each other in the home. And we will be able
to overcome all the evil that is in the world.
-- Mother
Teresa
There
are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil
to one who is striking at the root.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
The
lack of money is the root of all evil.
-- Mark
Twain
*
"Nonviolence
is the answer for the questions of our time.
Love will conquer evil every time."
-- James
Twyman
If
money help a man to do good to others, it is of some
value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and
the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
- Swami Vivekananda
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as
evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
-- Simone
Weil
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
-- Elie
Wiesel
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only
mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
-- Mary
Wollstonecraft
