The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. Jacob Bronowski
What if evil doesn’t really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices? Libba Bray, Rebel Angels
Being against evil doesn’t make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide ... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you’re fighting. Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I’m sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same. Keith Haring, Keith Haring Journals
Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there’s no turning back from science. Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
He provides an important excuse for evil. And that’s much worse. Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet
For the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Genesis 8:21
Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. Genesis 47:9
But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that were before him. I Kings 16:25
And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him. I Kings 16:30
And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the Lord; what should I wait for the Lord any longer? II Kings 6:33
For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs. II Chronicles 29:6
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. Psalms 10:13-15
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. Psalms 34:13&14
The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. Psalms 34:16&21
Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. Psalms 37:27
Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. Psalms 140:1&11
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. Proverbs 14:2&11&17&19&32
An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. Proverbs 17:11&13
The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way. Proverbs 21:10&12&18&27&29
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked:
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. Proverbs 24:1&2&8&19&20
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things. Proverbs 28:5
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. Ecclesiastes 4:2&3
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Ecclesiastes 8:11
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Ecclesiastes 9:3-5
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Isaiah 1:16
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20
Evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord. Jeremiah 2:3
For I will being evil from the north, and a great destruction. Jeremiah 4:6
Hear, O Earth: behold I will bring evil upon this people. Jeremiah 6:19
If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings. Jeremiah 26:3
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.