Moral Evil Quotes

The famine has been sent by God to teach the Irish a lesson.... The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

Neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional debate.

Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.