Quotes About Evil❓

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.—Einstein

The surest defense against evil is extreme individuality, originality of thinking, whimsicality—even if you will, eccentricity....Evil is a sucker for solidarity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balance sheets.—Joseph Brodsky

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed,/And feeds the green earth with its swift decay,/Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.—James Russell Lowell

Some of your hurts you have cured,/And the sharpest you still have survived,/But what torments of grief you endured,/From the evil which never arrived.—Emerson

There are no shortcuts to the Self, to an inner sense of wholeness. Claims of holiness by those who haven’t walked the shadowy paths of the soul are very dangerous, because then the shadow is projected upon an ‘other,’ who becomes an evil to be destroyed. The inner figure of the beggar who faces both the shadow and the Self, like the Roman God Janus, also ensure humbleness.—Erel Shalit

Lack of money is the root of all evil.—George Bernard Shaw

…the main shortcoming of my work is that I have not really accounted for human viciousness as I should have. It is not that man is ‘evil,’ but he is not ‘neutral’ either. He is terribly afraid of his own death, and of the insignificance of his life, his ‘creatureliness.’ And so, his whole life is a protest that he ‘is somebody,’ and this protest he takes out on others: he will even kill them to show that he can triumph over death. I think that the theoretical problem for our time is to harmonize this knowledge with the possibility of a humanistic science, and I am now writing what I think is my most mature work to that end.—Ernest Becker

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.—Frank Kent

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.—Henry Miller

All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die.—John Steinbeck

It is not enough for us to know how and why we fell ill, for to understand the causes of an evil does very little toward curing it. We must never forget that the crooked paths of a neurosis lead to as many obstinate habits, and that, despite any amount of understanding, these do not disappear until they are replaced by other habits.—Jung

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself… We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.—Jung