Evil Actions Quotes

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

Most evil comes from the belief that one is a victim, or one's group is a victim

Disbelievers cause confusion and corruption in the land.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

If you vote for evil, you are evil yourself.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

To what great evils has religion been able to impel men.

It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.