quotations about evil
The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil.
THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO
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Minima Moralia
If you speak not, you cannot speak evil.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
A man that does nothing but watch evil, never will overcome it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
ROD SERLING
Los Angeles Times, 1967
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Horace
An evil thought in a soul is like a water-rat swimming in a pond at evening: the rat destroys the iridescent reflection of heaven in the water.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Evils are the breathings of the unjust.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The defenders of evil deeds deserve the same punishment as the doers.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims