Evil Quotes

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.

Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.

Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It's called the problem of evil.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.

You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness.

To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.

There's always going to be evil, but the way we unite, regardless of class, race, religion, or gender, empowers the goodness in the world.

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.

Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.

I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.

We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.

Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

The United States is evil.

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.

Evil perpetually tends to disappear.

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

America is best when we work in collaboration with our allies. America is best when we are actually standing up to evil in this world. And ISIS, make no mistake about it, is an evil in this world.

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

And would'st thou evil for his good repay?

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.