Evil Quotes

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Man must become better and more evil.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the victorious struggle of God against the principalities and powers of evil.

The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.

You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

I don't consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.

I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

I cannot understand how something as ubiquitous as war can simply be dismissed as pathological. It is not clear to me that it is an unspeakable evil. If it is, I need proof of it.

Welcome evill, if thou commest alone. [Welcome evil, if thou comest alone.]

Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. [Better good afar than evil at hand.]

Evils have their comfort, good none can support.

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

we're too great a nation to allow the evil-doers to affect our soul and our spirit.

Evil knows no holiday.

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

The best way to fight evil is to do some good. Let me qualify that—the best way to fight evil at home is to do some good. The best way to fight them abroad is to unleash the military.

In the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, 'One Nation Under God.'

States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.

Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.

We've come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed.

German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein as evil a person as a lot of other people have.

They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

There is at least one more atheism left; it is by its very nature a belligerent form that wants to spread far and wide by propagating itself though books, TV, and other media.

My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much larger picture - cosmic warfare, that is, between God and Evil, between God and Satan.

It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: Oooh no! Too much sunlight.

If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 - he said to this simple little boy, 'Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.'

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.