Quotes About Evil Within

#1. [T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.

Theodore Dalrymple

#2. If Eve went door to door with her apple, not a soul in the Artemisia wouldn't have grabbed it, planted a kiss on old Mama Fig Leaf, and had that shiny red temptation turned into the applejack of good and evil within an hour.

Catherynne M Valente

#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. When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#5. Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature

Ibn Taymiyyah

#6. Separate religion from morality, and you have the true energy for evil within man, the terrible, cruel, devastating, and inhuman principle which naturally lies in his spirit. Here the division of the indivisible punishes itself most awfully.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#7. Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#8. The afterlife is mostly a dream state where you confront the good and evil within you. The text repeatedly explains that the images the deceased sees and the sounds one hears are hallucinations created by one's own thoughts.

Paul Lowe

#9. Raven scowled through his too-long bangs. "The Angel Song doesn't hurt humans. It only affects the evil within."
"Then you should be writhing on the ground with the hounds," Mace mumbled.

Heather Burch

#10. To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.

Flora Jessop

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

Victor Hugo

#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. [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

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

David Gemmell

#15. Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

Judith Light

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

Terry Brooks

#19. Within the human, good or evil aims are never ancient. They are sometimes masqueraded when reinvented in modern means

Dew Platt

#20. Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - from the prison of vanity and youur own looks - and sets you free to embrace the soul within.

Soman Chainani

#21. 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

#22. The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

M. Scott Peck

#23. There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly righteous, are brought down low by their envy. A true man will be known by his absence of envy. An evil man will be known by the presence of envy within him.

C. JoyBell C.

#24. Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture

M. Scott Peck

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

Emmuska Orczy

#26. After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Osamu Dazai

#27. I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance away, an unknown world of goodness. Often Isa had said to me: 'You, who see nothing but evil ... You, who see evil everywhere ... ' It was true, and it was not true.

Francois Mauriac

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

Lizzy Ford

#29. 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

#30. I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.

Joseph Addison

#31. I do have magical powers, I try to use them for good and not evil, but I can pretty much make anyone do whatever I want them to do, if they're within range.

Aubrey Plaza

#32. The sovereignty of God is the one impregnable rock to which the suffering human heart must cling. The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign God. - Margaret Clarkson

Randy Alcorn

#33. I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.

Rachel Held Evans

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

Ruta Sepetys

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

Pope Francis

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

Eric Hoffer

#37. It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#38. The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

Martin Luther

#39. Or is it that man contains within himself the seeds of evil? That even if he is placed in a paradise perfectly formed for him he will poison it, slowly, with his own jealousies and desires?

Catherine Fisher

#40. There is power within great sacrifice, within noble deeds. There are moments ... brief, shining moments when the impossible becomes possible.

Kelly Keaton

#41. Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride,
Within this house thou must not abide.
For here do evil things betide.

Jacob Grimm

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. We decide ourselves whether to do right or wrong, whether to be good or evil. For some, it is fear that keeps them within the law, but for others it is a greater sense of good. I do not think any religion can make a person good, or protect a good person from bad happening to him.

Kathleen Givens

#46. The world is in an eternal struggle against good and evil," he would say to me. "But the most important war is fought here." Ilyas would tap his chest. "It is not the barbarians, nor even the Druj, that we must fear the most, Nazafareen. It is the enemy within." I

Kat Ross

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

Ruta Sepetys

#48. Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

Ayn Rand

#49. We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

Douglas Preston

#50. The penetrating brilliance of swords
Wielded by followers of the Way
Strikes at the evil enemy
Lurking deep within
Their own souls and bodies.

Morihei Ueshiba

#51. We have seen and do see the type of evil that is within human civilization, and the Holocaust took place in European history during an advanced state of technology and form of civilization, only to become an event in that history that questioned what civilization actually means.

Laszlo Nemes

#52. 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.

#53. Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.

Herbert Hoover

#54. To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

Francesco Guicciardini

#55. A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.

Rikki Ducornet

#56. For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from Him, who, as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them.

Mahatma Gandhi

#57. THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On occasion the voice of peace resounds like thunder, jolting human beings out of their stupor.

Morihei Ueshiba

#58. Satan walks nowhere on this Earth, nor has he ever, save where he treads within the human heart.

Joseph D'Lacey

#59. 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

#60. War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ... making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

Charles Sumner

#61. Within the magical community, most brides are virgins. Do you have any idea how many curses and other horrible things are associated with virginity and virgin bloodshed? For witches, having sex before marriage invites all sorts of evil magic in.

Elizabeth A. Reeves

#62. Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.

Akhenaton

#63. The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.

Gary Zukav

#64. While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#65. Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.

Marianne Williamson

#66. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

Yann Martel

#67. 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

#68. With time, he developed the instincts of a priest: evil existed; the task was to work productively within its confines.

Alan Furst

#69. 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

#70. Weave the circle, tightly sewn,
Let nothing evil or unknown
Enter within. Stay without
On pain of death, we cast you out.

Yasmine Galenorn

#71. Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Plato

#72. There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth

Carl Henegan

#73. How is it possible that anyone can believe in a kind of God of Evil named Satan or Devil? Surely, evil lies within oneself.

Ralph P. Vander Heide

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#75. Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.

John Climacus

#76. Aggression is "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

Noam Chomsky

#77. To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.

Samuel Parr

#78. They say money is the rude of all evil, however I know poor people that can quite fit the bill.

Anthony Liccione

#79. I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your primer concern within other men

Ayn Rand

#80. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion.

Gregory David Roberts

#81. In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.

Ernest Cline

#82. The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign

Randy Alcorn

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

Philip Sidney

#84. Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgements which people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be cured of their ills only if they are persuaded to change their value judgements,

Donald Robertson

#85. Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win ... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#86. 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 ...

#87. The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

Origen

#88. Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must be groomed and controlled. That is the dichotomy that is set up within the human mind, good and evil.

Frederick Lenz

#89. Either pain affects the body (which is the body's problem) or it affects the soul. But the soul can choose not to be affected, preserving its own serenity, its own tranquillity. All our decisions, urges, desires, aversions lie within. No evil can touch them.

Marcus Aurelius

#90. The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Jeremy Taylor

#92. Too bad that miserable tribe died with their secrets." Tossing the crystal
across the table, she announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, the kingdom of the gods is within our grasp.

Feather Stone

#93. To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value.

African Spir

#94. Original sin - that is to say, the sin of having been born with human nature that contains within it the temptation to evil - will always make a mockery of attempts at perfection based upon manipulation of the environment.

Theodore Dalrymple

#95. Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

Confucius

#96. Dagny heard a cold, implacable voice saying somewhere within her: Remember it - remember it well - it is not often that one can see pure evil - look at it ...

Ayn Rand

#97. Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.

Herbert Spencer

#98. 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

#99. Our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.

Emm Cole

#100. Darius found no peace within his spirit, found no rest, and obtained nothing but brief satisfaction by justly killing evil men for their wrongdoings. Nothing could eradicate the nightmares which plagued his sleep.

Madison Thorne Grey