Evil People Quotes - Page 3

• There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.

  Jodi Picoult

  White, Black, Monsters

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• There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.

  Eric Schmidt

  Leadership, America, Democracy

  "Google: NSA spying on data centers is ‘outrageous’". www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2013.

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• If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Pay, Would Be, Done

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil

  Milton Friedman

  Men, Good People, Pay

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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• I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Literature, World

  "Contemplating Evil". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Lisa Snell, reason.com. November 1996.

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• Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.

  Allard K. Lowenstein

  Jobs, Men, Ivy

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Running, Smart, Book

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• In my philosophy, the meaning of life derives from the people one has known and loved. I have met my share of evil people and know what they are capable of - I was at the liberation of Dachau - but I have always held that evil is not inherent in men and women. I still believe that within a caring society, only the best people will flourish. That is the spirit that has moved me to photograph.

  Walter Rosenblum

  Philosophy, Believe, Caring

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• And when you say the policies are what caused this war - American policies - that's not to say that they're wrong. It's not to say that the policies were made by madmen or evil people. It's simply to say that you better understand the motivation of your enemy if you're going to defeat him. And the man who is motivated by a belief that his religion is being attacked by a superpower is much more dangerous than a man who's mad at you because you have women in the workplace.

  Michael Scheuer

  Motivation, War, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.

  Benjamin Carson

  Racist, Detroit, Republican

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.

  Martin Buber

  Christian, Religious, Mean

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• Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

  Theodor Adorno

  People, Evil, Dying

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.190, Verso

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• Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture

  M. Scott Peck

  Christian, Church, Culture

  M. Scott Peck (1983). “People of the Lie”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

  Patricia Briggs

  Action, Blame, Responsible

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.147, Penguin

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• I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did not occur to me -- I had no notion of this terrorist network that existed. I knew the were a lot of people in the world who didn't like us, but I had no idea that it was as well organized as it apparently is. That's one of the amazing facets of this terrible event: how well they did it. Incredible. The competence of these evil people.

  Andy Rooney

  Ideas, Terrible Events, Dumb

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• Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions." She was lecturing him, so she stopped. "Sorry. Hang around with Bran too long, and see if you don’t start passing around the Marrok’s advice as if he were Confucius.

  Patricia Briggs

  Sorry, Long, Advice

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.147, Penguin

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• I'm not actually a psychopath. I don't look evil. People don't normally want to put me in the same kind of things afterward, so I'm looking forward to people taking a few risks and hopefully seeing me as the character actor that I think I am.

  David Oakes

  Character, Thinking, Risk

  Source: collider.com

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• Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.

  Anthony de Mello

  Love Is, Light, Smell

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.61, Image

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• But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little further into the dark. And the thing is, even when we're gone, that light's going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

  Charles de Lint

  Hurt, Responsibility, Dark

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• There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work. They knew how to punch through music that would cure and make people feel good.

  Garth Hudson

  New York, Healing, Views

  "The Last Waltz". Documentary, Music, 1978.

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• I refuse to accept the idea that money is evil. People make things evil and negative. Some people love what money can do and therefore would do anything to get it, they love the power, they chase it, while others understand what money can do, therefore they do what's in their hearts, they understand the influence and attract it.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Heart, Ideas, Negative

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• There are demons and there are evil people in the world, and you post a picture like that and some cultist gets a hold of it or a coven and they begin muttering curses against an unborn child.

  Pat Robertson

  Children, World, Unborn Child

  "Pat Robertson: Satanic Covens Use Facebook To Curse Your Family" by Brian Tashman, www.rightwingwatch.org. February 17, 2015.

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• Our music is honest. We are who we are... messed up, dysfunctional sinners that have been loved in spite of our hate. We don't deny that we live in a evil world and that we have been evil people and we have evil tendencies... but we also have touched righteousness through our faith in Christ.. and we have received salvation, hope, and love... So our songs always acknowledge this truth and in turn we hope they bring faith, hope and love into the midst of the selfish, fearful hatred that makes up so much of the world we live in.

  Lacey Mosley

  Song, Hate, Selfish

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• I don’t think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that’s something that’s really interesting to watch.

  Josh Radnor

  Thinking, Interesting, Negative People

  "Josh Radnor & Elizabeth Olsen Are Okay With Being Earnest In ‘Liberal Arts’". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2012.

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• Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Kindness, Compassion, Zealous

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