Evil Quotes

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil.

Listen to the Lord's appeal:...Come, then, return to me and learn to know me as your father, who repays good for evil, love for injury, and boundless charity for piercing wounds.

So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.

True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone.

I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil.

We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon.

To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

All those who slight me to my face, Or do me any other evil, Even if they blame or slander me, May they attain the fortune of enlightenment!

We'll know for the first time If we're evil or divine We're the last in line.

The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.

You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

He who accuses another of being an evil person says so because he is afraid of him.

Make love your weapon to overcome any evil

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

Woman is the root of all evil.

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.

Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.