Top 100 Be Evil Quotes
#1. Evil is a broad church. There are so many different ways to be evil. Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in True Blood. He was pretty angsty about it, but he thought he was doing the right thing.
James Frain
#2. Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
Sophocles
#3. Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#4. Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books ... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
Agnes Smedley
#5. For the soul that is blind considers falsehood to be falsehood no longer, evil not to be evil, because it puts darkness for light, and light for darkness, and falls into endless disorders.
San Juan De La Cruz
#7. As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it."
Sergey Brin
#8. Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.
Astro Teller
#9. Well in the history of the See's Candy Company they always say, "I never did it before, and I'm never going to do it again." And we cashier them. It would be evil not to, because terrible behavior spreads.
Charlie Munger
#10. Don't be evil- apparently people like it better than "Be good".
Larry Page
#11. I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.
Max Von Sydow
#12. Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
Frank A. Clark
#13. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Solomon
#14. Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin
#15. From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
Taya Kyle
#16. The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.
Henry Ford
#17. We cannot raise the question: How can there be evil if God exists? without raising the second: How can there be good if He exists not?
Boethius
#18. Sin begins in thought, which is the intimation of conscience. So, if the conscience holds sin, then its thoughts shall be evil.
Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
#19. The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#20. When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.
Ayn Rand
#21. Google's motto - "Don't be evil" - is in part a branding ploy, but it's also characteristic of a kind of business that's successful enough to take ethics seriously without jeopardizing its own existence.
Peter Thiel
#22. There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
Ellis Peters
#23. In Washington, if someone disagrees with you, the problem must be your heart - you must be evil.
Steve Southerland
#24. The world may indeed be evil and ugly, I thought defiantly, it may be soiled with sin, but I also knew that when a man lifts his soul up to the vaults of heaven, reaching seraphic heights with the power of his voice, he becomes an eagle soaring, an instrument of the Holy Ghost
Adriana Koulias
#25. So my choices are to stay and be evil or to run and be evil. Wonderful.
Sabaa Tahir
#26. Google has the informal corporate motto of "don't be evil", but they make money when anything happens online, even the bad stuff.' In
Jon Ronson
#27. We lived by that which we held to be good and punished that which we held to be evil. You live by that which you denounce as evil and punish that which you know to be good.
Ayn Rand
#28. We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Jose Marti
#29. It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.
Sergey Brin
#30. I think what's exciting about playing a villain - particularly a villain who's totally unapologetic about their evil intentions - is that it's not anything remotely like what you get to do in real life. You're never allowed to be evil and not feel bad about it afterwards, let alone be evil, period.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#31. We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#32. What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?
Christian Harrison
#33. To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.
J. Budziszewski
#34. We feel that if someone is bad, he should be burdened with the knowledge that he is bad. It seems to us the ultimate injustice that a person could be evil, by our assessment , and still feel fine about himself.
Martha Stout
#35. Your intentions will be good. Without consideration and forethought, however, your actions could still be evil. That is the problem, of course, evil is always easy and resisting it is never so. Evil is relentless; and anyone, if they tire, if they are not vigilant, can fall prey to it.
Michael A. Stackpole
#36. Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be evil. And this judgment is the primary thing that keeps us from doing the central thing God created and saved us to do, namely, love like he loves.
Gregory A. Boyd
#37. What saith Antisthenes? Hast thou never heard? - It is a kingly thing, O Cyrus, to do well and to be evil spoken of.
Epictetus
#38. The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Heywood Hale Broun
#39. Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
#40. God's holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.
David F. Wells
#41. I thank thee, Lord, for forgiving me, but I prefer staying in the darkness: forgive me that too." - "No; that cannot be. The one thing that cannot be forgiven is the sin of choosing to be evil, of refusing deliverance. It is impossible to forgive that. It would be to take part in it.
George MacDonald
#42. A room of expressionless faces staring blankly at my pain, so devoid of meaning there must be evil intent.
Sarah Kane
#43. Evil cannot be "treated"
nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.
Bill O'Reilly
#44. The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.
Leon Bridges
#45. Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
Tasha Smith
#46. Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it's always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil. (Alexion)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#49. For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Sophocles
#50. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes the things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it's always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#51. When you a get a job you are not qualified for, it will be evil to you and to your community.
Sunday Adelaja
#52. Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil.
Anonymous
#53. I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil."
George Saunders
#54. I don't think we are cut out to be evil sorcerers, brothers," said Fentongoose. "If we were truly evil, we would not feel such sorrow at the deaths of our friends. We would just go, 'Ha! Ha! Ha!' or something.
Philip Reeve
#55. Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
Thomas Carlyle
#56. If God is wiser that we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil.
C.S. Lewis
#57. Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person; even a mischievous little chimney, or a dormer like a dimple, can catch up a beholder with a sense of fellowship; but a house arrogant and hating, never off guard, can only be evil.
Shirley Jackson
#58. And of course, he had to be evil. Why do all the sexy guys have to have issues? Why?
Laura Thalassa
#60. We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
Larry Page
#61. I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.
Jennifer Lopez
#62. I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#63. If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil
Socrates
#65. Not the way it's supposed to be. Evil is exactly that - a fundamental and troubling departure from goodness. The Bible uses the word evil to describe anything that violates God's moral will.
Randy Alcorn
#66. All right then, Daisy and I will have our usual.
I wondered what that might be. Evil Juice? Some kind of demonic energy drink?
Rachel Hawkins
#68. Michelle: I read about him in the news last week. So hot. I refuse to believe anyone that good looking could be evil. Matilda: Eh, Justin Bieber? Michelle: Bieber doesn't count. He's more like a semi-pretty lesbian.
L. H. Cosway
#69. He's an Imago," Adam repeated. "They kill humans, or use them as blood banks."
"You speak as if humans do not do that to each other," Rekesh commented. "Not all Imagoes choose to be evil, as not all humans choose to be good. ~Rekesh and Adam
Annabell Cadiz
#70. people don't generally believe themselves to be evil. Just strong. And they think that the world owes them something
Mary Elizabeth Summer
#71. If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil & don't get caught.'
Peter Thiel
#72. It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#73. Evil doesn't have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.
Yvon Chouinard
#74. The simple fact is that evil preys on good, and today, good had a bad day. Which brings with it an acceptance of the other side of that argument, that tomorrow might be evil's turn for some rain. And that's called hope.
Cody McFadyen
#75. Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?
Maureen Dowd
#76. Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Bob Dylan
#77. The word "sin" is just a way for a person not to take responsibility for their "bad" actions; actions that might not necessarily be evil- because evil is subjective- but are deemed evil by society.
Menna Anwar
#78. I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
Siegfried Sassoon
#79. There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Gautama Buddha
#81. There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.
Ayn Rand
#82. Get in here and make me some dinner - now, woman."
"News flash, Michael, you're supposed to be evil, not redneck!
Rachel Caine
#83. [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.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#84. Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.
Alton Brown
#85. Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#86. In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible ...
Stephen Jay Gould
#87. I loved his enormous aptitude for compassion, adoration and respect. That was his way of showing love. He lacked the capacity for wickedness, and that caressed my belief that he might just be an angel. My angel.
S.G. Holster
#88. And now he was mine and I said we should not let our love be threatened.
We should not let the family fall apart.
We should not accept an evil we can change.
We would stand up against it, would we not?
Yes. We should.
We would be heroes, even.
E. Lockhart
#89. It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
Menander
#90. Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds.
- Matthias
Brian Jacques
#91. As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#92. Neither Rousseau nor Robespierre was capable of dreaming of a goodness beyond virtue, just as they were unable to imagine that radical evil would 'partake nothing of the sordid or sensual' (Melville), that there could be wickedness beyond vice.
Hannah Arendt
#93. A person who knows all that is good and all that is true
as much as can be known
but does not resist evils, knows nothing.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#94. The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
Ayn Rand
#95. Be thankful for the good, be patient under the evil, and presume not to enquire why the latter predominates
Charlotte Temple
#96. He realized what a fool he had been. There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse.
Louis L'Amour
#97. The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
Tacitus
#98. How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).
Susanna Clarke
#99. The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .
Anthony De Mello
#100. Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.
Pythagoras
