Top 100 Quotes About Evil
#1. Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
Aldous Huxley
#2. Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.
Maureen Johnson
#3. Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.
Horace
#4. A judgment with an evil design comes about when we compare a person to our pre-conceived beliefs about what is right or wrong and then condemn that person.
John Kuypers
#5. To have displeased evil and ignorant men is the sure sign of genius and virtue...
Francesco Petrarca
#6. 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
Michelle Malkin
#8. When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.
Hannah Arendt
#9. Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased.
"He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.
Cassandra Clare
#10. Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#11. The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.
Haruki Murakami
#12. Possibility, or what we refer to as imagination, is 99% imitation. The real deal is only 1%. The problem is, this 1% is simultaneously referred to as Evil.
Kouhei Kadono
#14. So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
Voltaire
#15. She did not believe in a benign higher being. She could not. She had suffered too much to think of a heavenly force in the sky that would let such evil walk the earth without lifting a hand to stop it.
David Baldacci
#16. Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil ... the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.
Confucius
#17. But evil does not die, just as history does not end. Like a weed, evil can be cut back but never entirely uprooted. It waits for its chance to spread through the cracks in our vigilance. It can take root in the fertile soil of our complacency, or even the rocky rubble of the fallen Berlin Wall.
Garry Kasparov
#18. A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to
present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a
candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion
and/or euthanasia.
Pope Benedict XVI
#19. There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Sophocles
#20. These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?
Pope Francis
#21. If you tolerate cruel people,
you tolerate evil people.
If you persecute kind people,
you persecute righteous people.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#22. Safety is only an illusion when evil is on the hunt. I can't stand by and watch. I have to act.
Terry Goodkind
#23. All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.
Timothy Keller
#24. So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.
Thomas A Kempis
#26. Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.
Euripides
#27. Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
Herbert Hoover
#28. If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it
Anne Rice
#29. As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
Plutarch
#30. Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.
Robert Burns
#32. Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
Marianne Williamson
#33. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the good.
Victor Hugo
#34. Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
Confucius
#35. I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'
Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods
Good and Evil.
Graham Greene
#36. 'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.
Jon Voight
#37. There is no evil. There is no good. There is only life, and the absence of life.
Brodi Ashton
#38. Unfortunately, I have realized that we cannot completely erase all the evil from the world, but we can change the way we deal with it, we can rise above it and stay strong and true to ourselves.
Zlata Filipovic
#40. The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.
A.E. Samaan
#41. In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
Daniel H. Wilson
#42. There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Gautama Buddha
#43. When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them."
Pastor Butch Paugh
Tarrin P. Lupo
#44. Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.
Wladyslaw Szpilman
#45. I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.
Morrissey
#46. Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
John Calvin
#47. Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done
Simone Weil
#49. If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility
Brock Chisholm
#51. For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.
Elise M. Boulding
#52. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal
#53. I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now ... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?
Steve Harvey
#54. The beauty of a living organism-be it good or evil-is that it will follow the law of God with singular vision.
Be fruitful and multiply.
-Bertrand Zobrist
Dan Brown
#55. A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
Ayn Rand
#56. I don't know where I will be when you read this, but if I can, I will find you and whisper in your ear. The first thing I will whisper is this: Never give up. Goodness will always outrun evil in the end.
Anne Fortier
#57. Bad kitty!" he screeched, snarling and baring his fangs at Grimalkin, who yawned and turned away to groom his tail. "Evil, evil, sneaky kitty! Bite your head off in your sleep, I will! Hang you by your toes and set you on fire! Burn, Burn!"
-Razor
Julie Kagawa
#58. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk. There
James S.A. Corey
#60. 'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.
Michael Franti
#61. Just as I've always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I've always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.
Patricia Briggs
#62. A greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.
Charles James Fox
#63. hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear.
Terry Pratchett
#64. Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
Hannah More
#65. Maybe they want us to feel uneasy. Maybe they think we'll make a mistake if they're constantly breathing down our necks.' I shivered violently, as if I really could feel the hot, hungry breath of evil intentions panting just behind me.
Rosie Pugh
#66. Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#67. Capability doesn't equal intent, Doctor. Do you want what she knows or not? Because if you keep looking at her like the caged lab rat, she'll keep looking at you like the evil bloody scientist with the big syringe.
Joel Shepherd
#68. The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil ... my next The Opposite Of Magic.
Ivan Stoikov
#69. There are two things that can stop us from committing an evil act; love and fear- religion always chooses the latter one.
M.F. Moonzajer
#70. In America, tribalism is alive and well. There are four kinds - class, ideology, region, and race. First, class. Pretty easy. Rich folk and poor folk. Second, ideology. Liberals and conservatives. They don't merely disagree on political issues, each side believes the other is evil.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#71. Change is seen as something evil only by those who have lost their youth or sense of humor." That was Cookie Mueller on the East Village, 1985. The
Sari Botton
#72. Because a person couldn't ever be good and evil at once.
Little girl, don't you know? The world is made up of shades of grey.
Rachel E. Carter
#73. Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
Robert Hughes
#74. Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
Charles Simmons
#75. The wolf who wins is the wolf you feed. The evil wolf feeds on anger, guilt, sorrow, lies, and regret. The good wolf needs a diet of love and honesty, spiced up with big spoonfuls of compassion and faith. So if you want the good wolf to win, you're going to have to starve the other one.
Deborah Harkness
#76. Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.
Woody Allen
#77. 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
#78. My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good? ...
Brent Weeks
#79. There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
Dean Koontz
#80. In some darkened corner, an evil troll named Karma was rolling on the floor laughing, hysterically.
Belle Malory
#81. Evil can kill a human being, but never conquer a people!' *
Asne Seierstad
#83. An evil light sparked in his eyes. "You could always go for Plan B."
"Pound everyone to a bloody pulp until they shut up and cooperate?"
"Exactly."
-Curran and Kate
Ilona Andrews
#86. I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do - a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#88. We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.
Annette Bening
#89. It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.
Max Weber
#90. Our vision of war is probably too influenced by the biggest one of all, World War II, where the forces of evil were so unambiguous and so relentless that there was no choice but to commit to total war and to demand unconditional surrender. Seldom, though, is it quite that clear cut.
David Horsey
#91. What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.
Frederick Lenz
#92. Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.
Bertrand Russell
#93. The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
George Orwell
#95. God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil
Edward McKendree Bounds
#97. I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.
George Arnold
#98. What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.'
Michael Ignatieff
#99. Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
William Wordsworth
