Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Evil changes everybody!

… the most depraved wretches on earth.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

This is the very womb and bed of enormity.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

The priests, either from indulgence or carelessness, have allowed the wicked to give loose reins to their lusts

Evil is real.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

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

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Evil is only good perverted.

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

... a moral skunk .... [who has] debauched America ...

The most wicked thing that the dark side of human nature has ever come up with.

No one may do evil that good may come.