Evil Quotes

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows ...

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protec...

You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: ...

And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone th...

But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what wo...

I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and...

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I ...

Then why do we do so many bad things?He sighed. “Because one thing God gave us—and I’m afraid it’s a...

My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they to...

If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if ...

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

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and ...

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the...

Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the a...

Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and h...

Within biblical theology it remains the case that the one living God created a world that is other t...

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards e...

Lo! there ye stand, my children," said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad, with its d...

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

..it happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into ano...

That same moment he ordered the hateful portrait taken out. But that did not calm his inner agitatio...

It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselv...

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria ...

Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/ a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/ i been...

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I ...

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it...

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding...

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his concep...

Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islami...

My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't e...

If evil exists its to be found in our fears.

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

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.