Evil Quotes

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question 'to think or not to think..'.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

Evil is real—but so is God’s power and love.

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil.

Evil is present to cleverly disguise itself as good. Evil is present to control and deceive us.

Every manifestation of evil is the result of basic sin—sin that has remained unchanged since the moment it first entered the human race.

I believe a Christian can sin, but he does not have to. God never would have told us to reject evil acts if in point of fact we could not help but do them.

Neither the devil nor the world, nor even our own evil heart can compel us to sin. It must be by our own consent and will.

When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong.

Hell is paved with good intentions.

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.

He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.

The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.

All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing

If evil exists its to be found in our fears.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

You cannot love God and tolerate evil. Psalm 97:10.

Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?

…all the evils of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings.

...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leprous.

Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.

But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves, / Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?[Written after an earthquake in Lisbon killed over 15, 000 people]

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight

The fiend gives the more friendly counsel.

That's who I am, a man who has been both good and evil throughout his life. pg 14

You're not trying to find the answer to a question, you're simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe: that everyone is evil.

...she was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.

As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.