Evil Quotes

War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.

What millions died that Caesar might be great!

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.

If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us.

If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse to understand that it is in reality a good thing.

These are people that don't want to protect the American people... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.

Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.

A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment

Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

I wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.

Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.

Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body.

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

Evil depends on where you're standing.

I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

Evil changes everybody!

I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.

If you no longer have any income, you will not be neglected-you will not starve to death. . . . We panic at first, but God does not always allow the evil that is feared to happen.