Evil Quotes

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

Everyone should have an evil secret plan.

Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.

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

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

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.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

The United States is evil ... it is the canker of the world.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

Evil is only good perverted.

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good from evil;" it establishes unquestionable

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.

A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

Nonviolence is the answer for the questions of our time. Love will conquer evil every time.

"Uh-huh," I said. "Because all you mad, evil scientists sit around whipping up batches of Pillsbury's finest during your coffee breaks. I mean, this is pathetic."

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.