Quotes About Evil Within Us

#1. To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us.

Victor Hugo

#2. [Christ's] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His sinlessness still reveals our sinfulness; and unless we allow [Jesus] to destroy the evil within us, the evil within us still wants to destroy Him. This is the conflict of the ages.

Billy Graham

#3. Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

Karl Barth

#4. The nature of evil, the nature of it, it exists. It exists and I think within us we have the tools. If we have the will, we can combat it. I think the power is within us and it lies in our own conceptualization of God and positivity and compassion and love.

Vera Farmiga

#5. There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers

Marilyn Manson

#6. There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

Philip Sidney

#8. Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#9. The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.

Jeremy Taylor

#10. He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.

P.C. Cast

#11. The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves.

James T. Kirk

#13. Evil is not a distant demon. It works its destruction close to us, with us, within us. He was right. He told us Evil does not come from down below and devour us. Instead, we help Evil destroy our lives.

Anonymous

#14. The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us.

Loren Eiseley

#15. There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

David Gemmell

#16. There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of our actions is to go before that court, where process is irrelevant. Good and evil are intents, and intent is without excuse.

R.A. Salvatore

#17. Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.

Dean Koontz

#18. Grace within us will employ prayer, and faith, and hope, and love, to cast out the evil; it takes unto it the "whole armour of God," and wrestles earnestly. These two opposing natures will never cease to struggle so long as we are in this world.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#19. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it.

John Lennon

#20. Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#21. Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us? The

Ruta Sepetys

#22. For the person who is grounded in the timeless truth of the universe, there is no life and no death. He or she can experience eternal joy without being limited by the definitions of good and evil. The essence of Oneness always exists within us.

Ilchi Lee

#23. An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [ ... ] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

George R R Martin

#24. There is a god in every single one of us. And there is evil in every single one of us. The true battle between good and evil is fought within.

Anonymous

#25. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Eric Hoffer

#26. The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

Pope Francis

#27. What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?

Ruta Sepetys

#28. In this life, the proper way of living is to make use of both joy and suffering. They are both merely stimuli that the world presents to us. So by blending them skillfully within you, you can use them in a completely different way. If you want to be steeped in evil, you mustn't forget good.

Fuminori Nakamura

#29. No one is evil. But evil is within us all.

Lizzy Ford

#30. The evil we do, Monsieur, is within us; it does not come from circumstance.

Emmuska Orczy

#31. We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, and burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn