Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.
I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
Alien abduction movies are always the scariest; no matter how cheesy they are, they still scare me for a week. I live by myself in my apartment, and I don't worry about intruders or robbery; I mostly worry about alien abduction or evil, mean ghosts.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
We must make our world safer by rooting out the evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who mean no harm.
When I listen to a fascist, like Rush Limbaugh or Tom Delay or somebody like that, they help me define my views. I ask myself, 'Why do I feel so strongly the opposite of what that guy is saying? He's not stupid. He's evil, but why is he evil?'
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
A lot of people are scared that machines will take over the world, machines will turn evil: the Hollywood 'Terminator' scenario.
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.
The self-righteous supporters of mass immigration think the rest of us are stupid and evil.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
