Evil Quotes

Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said th...

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

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who ca...

Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with parad...

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each ind...

Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they dis...

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crysta...

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re...

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil...

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.

This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field wit...

[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing...

It takes a certain amount of courage, he though, to face yourself and say with candor, I'm rotten. I...

There is evil! It's actual, like cement.I can't believe it. I can't stand it.Evil is not a view ... ...

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying inte...

When you stopped believing in God," he went on, "did you stop believing in good and evil?""No. But I...

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we...

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and ...

We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed th...

Everything about this is embarrassing" she said. "D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good ...

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation domi...

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evil...

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

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but ...

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest goo...

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; t...

["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating ar...

[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to ...

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the g...

The intellectual climate of the 1970s, for which the 1950s had already paved the way, contributed to...

Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will neve...

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they t...

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen t...

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia d...

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divi...

Dad, will they ever come back?""No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not them. But yes, ...

We haven't been too bad, have we?""No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven'...

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now em...

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves an...

Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should g...

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion ...

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and ...

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, ...

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a r...

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to t...

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an inst...

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feetWhen far away an interrupted cryCame over houses fro...

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly st...

Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face...

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

...That insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye lay caged in his fle...

This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spiri...

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

The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit...

As sure as God is good so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell...

In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an e...

If we don't harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity f...

The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Govern...

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, ...

The Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing tells the story of the gangster leaders who carri...

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has co...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has co...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has co...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has co...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has co...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has co...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has co...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has co...

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

Hell is paved with good intentions.

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to...

Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also aga...

A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evi...

Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first ...

Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours. Your night is my cloak, my shield, m...

Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.

You're a Dark One," said Anton. "All you see in everything is evil, treachery, trickery.""All I do i...

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept i...

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this h...

If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?

Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watch...

Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watch...

Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watch...

Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watch...

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way...