The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
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.
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.
I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.
I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.
This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much money... they do make too much money, but the only way we've figured out how to generate wealth in this world is through the market economy.
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Evil is everywhere. But to believe that this is a country that resembles the Jim Crow-era is ludicrous and disingenuous.
As God is continually being marginalized and dismissed in the culture, you will continue to see evil proliferate.
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
