Evil Quotes

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric

In the forest of primeval A school for Good and Evil Twin towers like two heads One for the pure And one for the wicked Try to escape you'll always fail, The only way out is Through a fairytale.

I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin.

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.

On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.

I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Evil tongues never want a whet.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.