Evil Quotes

What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

Why are you wearing that negligee? Sure makes it hard to walk away.

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

There is a little good in all evil.

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.

Evil person causes harm even if treated will.

A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.

As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide.

Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God.

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.