Evil Quotes

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

He who does now know evil will fall into it.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet.

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.

Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

Why is our media quick to find evil in our local police, but tnot in Islamic terror?

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.

All of us here today understand this: We do not fight Islam, we fight against evil.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.