The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. – Maria Montessori
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. – Ludwig von Mises
In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ. – Kenneth Scott Latourette
‘The Prince’s blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the ‘Evil Machiavel.’ The outrage has not dimmed with time. – Michael Ignatieff
Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy. – Michael Moore
I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who’d had no upbringing, no chance in life. – Jeffrey Archer
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all. – Lars von Trier
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society. – Judith Light
The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you’re black, you’re still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for. – Lupe Fiasco
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. – Mahatma Gandhi
I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define. – Madeleine Albright
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that. – Karan Mahajan
It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil. – Jon Evans
All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context. – Jesse Kellerman
It’s taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn’t have human feeling. – Jung Chang
I love the ‘Underworld’ movies because the vampires aren’t automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs. – Jeaniene Frost
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. – Jimmy Sangster
I’m interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn’t started as any kind of rebellion against the ‘evil Microsoft empire.’ – Linus Torvalds
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end. – John Newton
I truly do believe that history teaches that weakness arouses evil, and whether it be the horrific attack in France, the inspired attacks here in the United States, the instability in Turkey that led to a coup. – Mike Pence
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp. – John Boyd Orr
We have a mantra: don’t be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing. – Larry Page
Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good. – Marianne Williamson
