Evil Quotes

I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

Evil counsel travels fast.

The time will come when only those who believe deeply and actively in the family will be able to preserve their families in the midst of the gathering evil around us.

The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

It's kind of good to get that evil monkey off my back!

When I was younger I feared the dark, wondering what evil was watching me. Now it's different, for now it's a game of sneaking the light back on and laughing at how quickly the evil fleas.

Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for instrumental thinking. But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.

The great lesson of our time is that evil still exists, and when evil is on the march, it must be confronted.

The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.

East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?

To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.

Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

It must be hard being you,” she said. “Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside.” “It’s not that hard. The rest of the world isn’t as insightful as you.

It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

It is clear to us that, for good or for evil, our vitality is concentrated in our religion. You cannot change it. You cannot destroy it and put in its place another.

Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

We have to cover everything with the Lord himself, not a false sort of optimism, not by blinding our eyes to the evil, but by really seeing God in everything.

The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil.

And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?

The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door.

I think that you only occasionally have to play evil because everything you're doing is.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.