It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. – Samuel Butler
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it. – Ravi Zacharias
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. – Samuel Johnson
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. – Oliver Ellsworth
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. – Richard John Neuhaus
I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It’s a challenge to make goodness appealing. – Pauline Collins
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. – Robert Benchley
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well. – Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent. – Richard Reeves
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man’s restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. – Ralph Steadman
You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who’s ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to. – Rick Riordan
Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that’s balls – evil. But obviously that’s your livelihood. – Robin Day
Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it’s supported now by research in several laboratories. – Paul Bloom
Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more. – Ossie Davis
Orwell wasn’t right about where society was in 1984. We haven’t turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us. – Ramez Naam
If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder. – Paul Bloom
Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing. – Robert Jordan
In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow! – Rufus Wainwright
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. – Samuel Butler
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. – Robert Kennedy
Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature. – Paul Bloom
The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the ‘evil empire’ ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not. – Robert Foster Bennett
In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil will raise its head, but you can be prepared for it. – Russell Pearce
