Evil Quotes

Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood

Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.

Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector

Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.

There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.

We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

First of all, I never think of my characters as good or evil. I play them as honestly as I can. When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy.

I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way... the RIGHT way.

Evil then results from imperfection.

In Lebanon, there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat. In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him.

The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.

Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite

After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

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

For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.

My administration has a job to do and we're going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers.

Loathesome I am, and evil. You can mock me for that. But leave my pain alone!

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.