Evil Quotes
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.
War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.
Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.
We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.
The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.
All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.
Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.
The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.
Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.
It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.
No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love
Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!