Evil Quotes

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

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.

There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?

Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

There are evils worse than death.

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.

I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve.

My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics.

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

Do not let the forces of evil take over to make this a Christian America.

Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large.

... moral evil is its own curse.

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.