Plato Quotes

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Evil is only good perverted.

… the most depraved wretches on earth.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Evil changes everybody!

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them are abomination …

The death penalty as been a gross failure. Beyond its horror and incivility, it has neither protected the innocent nor deterred the wicked. The recurrent spectacle of publicly sanctioned killing has cheapened human life and dignity without the grace which comes from justice meted out swiftly, evenly, humanely.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

The sorry path that remains for me to follow from an obscure prison to the gallows has been trodden by men with more merit than my own.

Every one shall die for his own iniquity.

There are some acts of justice which corrupt those who perform them.

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

The priests, either from indulgence or carelessness, have allowed the wicked to give loose reins to their lusts

For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil.

Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!