Evil Existence Quotes

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?

And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

Evil will always exist in this world.

It's true that no child is born knowing there's an evil thing. You learn what is ugly.

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

Democracy is a form of government --- it's not a ticket to some fantasy land where all evil is vanquished and everyone agrees with us

We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

I believe that there is good. I believe there is evil. Do I believe that they come from God who is watching us conduct myriad never-ending wars and looks benignly on because there's higher purpose to all of this? I don't think so.

Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.

This generation, and many others, have been led to believe that the devil is a myth, a figure, an idea, the idea of evil... But the devil exists and we must fight against him.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.