Lydia M. Child Quotes

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

I challenge anyone to tell me there isn't evil in this world.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

To what great evils has religion been able to impel men.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.

Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

Theosophy blesses the world; Theology is its curse.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

Perhaps this is the only real evil left.

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.