Quotes about Evil

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“No matter how many times Percy killed them and watched them crumble to powder, they just kept re-forming like large evil dust bunnies.”

“I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.”

“Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?”

“jace's clothes had been clean, stylish, ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive.
Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.”

“As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.”

“If Evil exists, it’s to be found in our fears”

“So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.”

“How did you get me here? (Tory)
I have my evil Jedi ways. The Force is strong with this one. (Acheron)”

“It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.”

“Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.”

“Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.”

“We should not accept an evil we can change.”

“None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.”

“Evil happens without effort, naturally, inevitably; good is always the product of skill.”

“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”

“It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.”

“And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually… it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life… every second of it… Is all we have.”

“He had never felt entirely comfortable around Raphael. Raphael seemed to him like Loki or some other trickster God, sometimes working for good and sometimes for evil, but always in his own interests.”

“… It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil…”

“Rats live on no evil star”

“There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.”

“Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.”

“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.”

“Because it’s our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.”

“A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.”

“It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man.”

“The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.”

“As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.”

“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.”

“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”

“As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.”

“You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.”

“Goor or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me.”

“Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess. Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.”

“Has it ever occurred to you that you might be delusional?'

That's what the psychiatrist said, but I think he's wrong. There's an evil flying pizza out there, and it's got Brenda's name on it.”

“All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy.”

“Hate is the father of all evil.”

“If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?”

“When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy he could touch, but not put on his shelf.

This made her rare. This made her precious.

This made him… love her.”

“Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.”

“Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.”

“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”

“You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.”

“The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make me warm and fuzzy.”

“With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.”

“It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I’m rotten. I’ve done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.”

“Find good in what the world says is evil.”

“The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.”

“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about :…”

“Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.”

“One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.”

“I stand corrected. Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell”

“Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. All that exists is a magnificent interweaving, vast and reciprocal.”

“But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.”

“Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.”

“There is a little good in all evil.”

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”

“Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.”

“He lied, Jenny thought, racing up the steps. He changed the rules and he lied. Sometimes you can't return good for evil; sometimes evil simply has to be stopped.”

“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.”

“… Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?”

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”

“We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.”

“Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.”

“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.”

“I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.”

“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”

“Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”

“Never thought my biggest cheerleader would be someone who thought I was evil and unnatural.”

“She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.”

“Evil to some is always good to others”

“Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.”

“What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer.”

“There's no such thing as. All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}.”

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.”

“Sorry, Ms. Terwilliger. I'm flattered that you think I'm such an upstanding person, but I'm already caught up in one epic battle of good versus evil. I don't need another.”

“What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.”

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”

“We… sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.”

“Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.”

“Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.”

“Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I…”

“I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.”

“Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.”

“A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.”

“[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.”

“Why do we write?
"To make suffering endurable
To make evil intelligible
To make justice desirable
and… to make love possible”

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

“wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.”

“The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.”

“See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.”

“There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.”

“All that was missing was a neon sign that read EVIL AND CONFLICTED ABOUT IT with a flashing arrow pointing at his head.”

“That's what happens when you fall. Everything that was bright about you becomes dark. As brilliant as you once were, that's how evil you become. It's a long way to fall”

“The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.”

“Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.”

“She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.”

“Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.”

“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”