Evil Quotes

Evil draws men together.

I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.

If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes.

It's a compliment to me to hear you screaming.

Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

Advertising is 'an evil service'.

People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a finer and more spiritual substance.

In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of them, perhaps, are the evil effects so manifest.

The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.

It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

To kill a citizen of our own country is evil, but to kill a citizen of another country is 'good.'

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.

Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die, And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils.