Evil Quotes

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

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

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

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

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

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

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

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

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

Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Don't be evil is a load of crap.

Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions.

Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times.

Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed.

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.

If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.