Evil Quotes

This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.

The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what?

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred?

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn’t always prevail over evil.

And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.

I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

I've always identified [myself] with the warrior and good over evil, and you don't negotiate for good over evil, if you want peace and love, kill people that deny you that.

God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.

The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

... and still I stayed to plan all my revenge, my vengeance against those who had turned me from good to evil, and made of me what I was going to be from this day forward.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

In thy foul throat thou liest.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.