Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky). – Serge Schmemann
We all say, ‘You don’t have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.’ – Stuart Appleby
The problem of evil… Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it? – William Temple
Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis – it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy – to destroy your chance of arising above yourself. – Vernon Howard
You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body. – Sherwin B. Nuland
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset? – Van Wyck Brooks
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. – Thomas Hardy
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. – Siegfried Sassoon
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. – Socrates
War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don’t crush evil then evil will get you. – Ted Nugent
The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent. – William A. Dembski
If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called ‘pure evil’ because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable. – Steven Pinker
He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound… to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. – William Godwin
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. – William E. Gladstone
Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the ’90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger. – Vivek Wadhwa
I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. – Wilhelm Steinitz
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. – Susan B. Anthony
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare. – William Vickrey
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip. – Wassily Kandinsky
The very name ‘Manson’ has become a metaphor for evil… He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil. – Vincent Bugliosi
Amazon can’t be all good or all bad. I don’t think that everything they do is evil; they’ve given a lot of authors access. – Scott Turow