Evil Quotes
The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.
For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.
Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.
To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.
The world is evil only when you become its slave.
Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.
The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.
Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.
Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.
Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.
Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.
If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.
It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.
No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.
The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.
You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.