Evil Quotes

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.

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

Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.

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

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

[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.

"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."

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'

Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.

Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.

Evil feeds off a source of apathy, weak in the mind, and of course you have to be. Less than a man, more like a thing, no knowledge you're nothing, knowledge is king.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil? He who loves most, spends most, He who hoards much loses much

We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'

Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all?

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.