Evil Quotes

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.

Michelle Malkin

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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.

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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

Andrew McCarthy

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A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

Augustus Hare

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The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil.

David Harsanyi

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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

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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Molly Ivins

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I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.

Martha Plimpton

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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Agatha Christie

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The Jew is upset because the nations of the world - the United Nations - lash him, brand him as racist and evil, hate him and openly demonstrate their desire to destroy him.

Meir Kahane

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I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.

Ashley Wagner

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Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

David Farr

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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

H. P. Lovecraft

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My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.

Lindsay Wagner

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Adlai Stevenson I

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The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

Max Weber

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A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.

Wole Soyinka

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Liberal interventions that enable all children to shoot for their potential aren't just moral, they are pragmatic - any society that wastes talent to poverty or oppression isn't just evil: it is stupid.

David Brin

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You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

Gary Ackerman

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I believe there is meaning in life. I believe there is good and evil.

Min Jin Lee

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The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.

Lupe Fiasco

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I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

Daniel Okrent

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