Evil Quotes

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

Malevolence is shameful but satisfying.

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.

People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.

Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to it by misleading others about its presence.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

I have learned a lot about good and evil - they are not always what they appear to be.

A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.