Evil Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.'

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

We believe no evil till the evil's done

Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.

Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

Evil, be thou my good.

A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.

What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.

We should not accept an evil we can change.

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.