Evil Quotes

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.

... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil!

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.

to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.

All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.

There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

No evil lost is wailed when it is gone.

Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

I always feel that there are two powers in the universe. There is good and there is evil and it depends what side you listen to and which path you decide to follow.

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknown Enter within. Stay without On pain of death, we cast you out.

Active evil is better than passive good

If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the close similarity between good and evil, right and wrong, that the danger lies.

Christians need to take a stand for what is right and not let evil go unchallenged.

Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, " said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, And all their ministers attend on him.

Looks like what drives me crazyDon't have no effect on you--But I'm gonna keep on at itTill it drives you crazy, too.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.

All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

The anti-mind is the anti-life.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.