As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. Daniel 9:11-14
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. Joel 5:14&15
Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? Amos 3:6
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. Mica 2:3&10
Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matthew 5:39
He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good. Matthew 5:45
Men loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil. John 3:19
Let us do evil that good may come. Romans 3:8
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Romans 7:19
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21
Evil communications corrupt good manners. I Corinthians 15:23
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out ... For the love is money is the root of all evil. I Timothy 6:7&10
And thou seest many of them vying one with another in sin and transgression and their devouring of illicit gain. Verily evil is what they do.
Why do not the rabbis and the priests forbid their evil-speaking and their devouring of illicit gain ? Verily evil is their handiwork. Koran 5:62&63
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. Niccolo Machiavelli
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. D H Lawrence
The Problem of Evil ... How come there is suffering and pain in the world? ... Why doesn’t He intervene? ... God is actually quite mad ... The conflict between the All Good cf. the Most Powerful. Colin McGinn, interview Jonathan Miller, The Atheism Tapes
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. Franz Kafka
You’re evil. You’re the one who’re meant to die. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1994 starring Robert deNiro & Kenneth Branagh & Helena Bonham Carter & Ian Holm & Rory Jennings & Tom Hulce & John Cleese & Aidan Quinn & Richard Briers & Robert Hardy & Christina Cutall & Celia Imrie & Cherie Lunghi & Charles Wyn-Davies & Richard Bonneville et al, director Kenneth Branagh, man on scaffold to crowd
Evil stitched to evil stitched to evil. ibid. senior professor
The truth is I’ve done monstrous things … There will be a price. Dorian Gray 2009 starring Ben Barnes & Colin Firth & Ben Chaplin & Rachel Hurd-Wood & Johnny Harris & Rebecca Hall & Emilia Fox & Fiona Shaw & Maryan d'Abo & Caoline Goodall et al, director Oliver Parker
What puzzles the ordinary fellow is, If God is all wise and perfectly good, then why on Earth did he put Evil in the world? Rumpole of the Bailey s2e1: Rumpole and the Man of God, defendant, ITV 1980
Brooding a little further on this business of evil, it occurs to me that the world is fairly equally divided between those who see it everywhere because they are always looking for it and those who hardly notice it at all. John Mortimer, Rumpole and the Children of the Devil
Human nature is evil; its goodness derives from conscious activity. Now it is human nature to be born with a fondness for profit. Indulging this leads to contention and strife, and the sense of modesty and yielding with which one was born disappears. One is born with feelings of envy and hate, and, by indulging these, one is led into banditry and theft, so that the sense of loyalty and good faith with which he was born disappears. One is born with the desires of the ears and eyes and with a fondness for beautiful sights and sounds, and, by indulging these, one is led to licentiousness and chaos, so that the sense of ritual, rightness, refinement, and principle with which one was born is lost. Hence, following human nature and indulging human emotions will inevitably lead to contention and strife, causing one to rebel against one’s proper duty, reduce principle to chaos, and revert to violence. Therefore one must be transformed by the example of a teacher and guided by the way of ritual and rightness before one will attain modesty and yielding, accord with refinement and ritual, and return to order. Xun Zi, Human Nature is Evil
The world is an evil place, Charlie. And some of us make money off of that. Others get destroyed. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2007 starring Philip Seymour Hoffman & Ethan Hawke & Marisa Tomei & Albert Finney & Rosemary Harris & Brian F O'Byrne & Aleksa Palladino & Michael Shannon & Amy Ryan & Sarah Livingston & Jordan Gelber et al, director Sidney Lumet, pawn bloke to father
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Plato
Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange – meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil. ibid.
The sky is blue. The sun is shining. And yet you forget that everywhere there is evil under the sun. Evil Under the Sun 1982 starring Peter Ustinov & Jane Birkin & Colin Blakely & Nicholas Clay & James Mason & Roddy McDowall & Sylvia Miles & Denis Quilley & Diana Rigg & Maggie Smith & Emily Hone et al, director Guy Hamilton, Poirot
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. Robert Kennedy
Macbeth is aware from the very beginning that the deed he contemplates is evil. He admits that its ‘horrid image’ makes his hair stand on end, and his heart knock against his ribs. Although he never discusses with his wife the morality of the murder, which she always mentions euphemistically, and although he hardly faces it himself, every word he speaks shows that he is struck to the soul with a realization of the horror of the deed. Kenneth Muir, The Arden Shakespeare: Macbeth
The Three Big Ideas: Most of the Evil in this World is Highly Coordinated … historical and current events are being influenced by evil … The forces of historical evil affect us all now. Proof NWO & Illuminati Are Real and History is a Lie, Youtube
Goldman Sachs is just plain evil
They are evil as can be,
Goldman Sachs are such a liar
They say one and one makes three
When the funds they sold their junk to
Tanked, they went on a spree
Goldman Sachs is just plain evil
They are evil as can be. Joe Crow Ryan, Youtube song 2010
In our post-Lehman, post-subprime, post-banksta-bailout world, Goldman Sachs is a synonym for evil. The Corbett Report, ‘Meet Goldman Sachs the Vampire Squid’
‘They’re pathological.’ ibid. F William Engdahl
‘The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells of money.’ ibid. article Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone magazine
‘How Goldman Sachs basically created, did the great crash of 1929.’ ibid. Thom Hartmann show 2009, cited Galbraith
Goldman’s contribution to the subprime meltdown of the previous decade … ibid.