Evil Quotes

I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary.

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.

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.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

Sanity is all that stands between good and 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.

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

the evil the u are the brighter u will get

It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

If you're a Republican and rich, that's evil. But if you're a Democrat and rich, that's great.

Unlike those who fight truly intolerant things like terrorism throughout the world, Madonna is really the lone brave voice in the wilderness standing up against evil.

Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Sin begins in thought, which is the intimation of conscience. So, if the conscience holds sin, then its thoughts shall be evil.

I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one must have an evil intention toward the territorial benefit or integrity of other nations.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.

I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in evil.

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.

God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.

I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.

Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.

The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.

Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.