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I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it. -- Joel Osteen
Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do. -- Richard Dawkins
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. -- Maximilien Robespierre
American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information. -- Tim Robbins
It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God. -- Tony Campolo
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things. -- Adam Hamilton
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. -- Bob Riley
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? -- Philip Zimbardo
People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind. -- Susanne Bier
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. -- George Santayana
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do. -- Octavia E. Butler
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -- Albert Einstein
The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them. -- Leon Bridges
Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do. -- Doug Harvey
The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office. -- Roseanne Barr
The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate. -- Antonio Munoz Molina
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things? -- Philip Zimbardo
Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties. -- Lincoln Steffens
People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are. -- Terry Eagleton
There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the modern, western, secular mind set. They don't believe evil exists. They are exactly the ones who are in danger of getting blindsided by evil. Because they're not prepared for it. -- Joel C. Rosenberg
I was naughty. I wasn't bad. Bad is hurting people, doing evil. Naughty is not hurting anyone. Naughty is being amusing. -- Sydney Biddle Barrows
Evil"¦doesn't mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to "the Christian majority's" private liking. -- Richard Dawkins
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. -- Steven Weinberg

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