Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.10
“Absolute Evil exists. As kids we geriatrics learned all about it, and no damn social worker had better come along and blame “evil” on “conditions.””
Evil is a force in the universe, a force using any weakness it finds to do its dirt; and with Evil, Hell is just a sideline.
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 134
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“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”
Aurelius Augustinus book Enchiridion of Augustine
Enchiridion (c. 420 ), Ch. 27
“Anytime you have a force that comes along and says, We will eradicate these people, you have evil.”
Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
The Paris Review interview (1994)
Context: When I see bad-looking bikers with black leather studs on their wrists hanging out at the Oregon Country Fair, I take it as a sign of health. No, I don’t want them hanging around, but trying to eliminate them all, arrest them all, legislate against them all — that’s evil. I have asked feminists, If you could, would you eliminate all male chauvinist pigs? If you could come up with some kind of spray to spray in the air and do away with them, would you? Would you do away with all scorpions and rattlesnakes, mosquitoes? Mosquitoes are part of the ecosystem. So are male chauvinist pigs. You’ve got to fight them, but you don’t try to exterminate them. A purifying group or system that would eliminate them all — that would be an evil force. Anytime you have a force that comes along and says, We will eradicate these people, you have evil. Looking back in history, what has seemed the worst turns out not to be the worst.
“Taxes are an evil—a necessary evil, but still an evil, and the fewer of them we have the better.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Churchill By Himself: The Definitive Collections of Quotations, ed. Richard Langworth, 2008, p. 424, (1907, 12 February)
Early career years (1898–1929)
“Total evil.
dang, his principal had been right all along…
he really was demonspawn.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Infamous
“We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.”
Kailash Satyarthi (1954) Indian children's rights activist
Times of India interview (2014)
Context: We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless. If people oppose my work, launch personal attacks, we know that we are on the right path. One colleague was shot, another was beaten to death. I've injuries all over my body. We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.
“The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.”
Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
XII. The origin of evil things; and that there is no positive evil.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
“I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
Source: September 1, 1939 (1939), Lines 19–22