Short Evil Sayings

#1. When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good.

Khuswant Singh

#2. Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

Euripides

#3. Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

Milarepa

#4. Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

Oswald Chambers

#5. A human can be a real prick but maintain the capacity for good and a good hearted soul is capable of great evil. Never judge a person as absolutely one way or another because you sell the human race short when you do.

Jim McGarrah

#6. [M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short ... there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of original sin.

Joseph De Maistre

#7. Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

Hannah More

#8. Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#9. God, he was an evil bastard, but boy was he good!

MFR

#10. He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

Francesco Guicciardini

#11. What does he look like? Not big, not small, not short, not tall, not old not young, not dark nor blond. His eyes are the only thing that give him away; they're as mean as a snake's. We were all afraid of him. Sometimes we feared we might become as evil as him!

Tonke Dragt

#12. In fairy tales, there were always ogres or evil queens or circumstances to be overcome. But in real life, you could give everything you had, everything you were, for someone, and still fall short.

Kit Rocha

#13. It seems it doesn't pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil.

Anthony Liccione

#14. Satan's survival-of-the-fittest system appears to work- in the short run. But the great controversy is about the long run.

Jack Provonsha

#15. Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character.

Theodore Roosevelt

#16. Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Charles Dickens

#17. I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.

M. Scott Peck

#18. Paoletta turned to him with a dark face.
You'd better watch out, Chase. He's passed over to the evil side.

Stefania Mattana

#19. Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

Frank Norris

#20. Beauty and ugliness have one origin.
Name beauty, and ugliness is.
Recognizing virtue recognizes evil.

Is and is not produce one another.
The difficult is born in the easy,
long is defined by short, the high by the low.

Sam Hamill

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

Neil Gaiman

#22. In short, the ultimate source of Evil is compasion itself

Slavoj Zizek

#23. I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.

Sam Altman

#24. And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

Charles Dickens

#25. Us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil,

Charles Dickens

#26. You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

L. Neil Smith

#27. For what was the great controversy permitted to continue throughout the ages? Why was it that Satan's existence was not cut short at the outset of his rebellion? It was that the universe might be convinced of God's justice in His dealing with evil; that sin might receive eternal condemnation.

Ellen G. White

#28. If God were to eradicate all evil from this planet, He would have to eradicate all evil men. Who would be exempt? "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" [Romans 3:23 NIV].
God would rather transform the evil man than eradicate him.

Billy Graham

#29. You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come out. Now what you've got to understand is that the wheel's not evil. Never mind what the scared men all tell you. no discovery is good or evil until men make it that way. -The Wheel, John Wtndham

John Wyndham

#30. For this is what I have learned, in my short life: do not act out of anger. Act from love or not at all. I have seen it, how anger makes a space for what I must call evil.

Kim Edwards

#31. It is hard to describe to you but I swear it was a fearsome sight. There were not eyes to speak of, but chasms that saw into its dark depths. A shade of a mouth full with phantom teeth. There seemed to be a skull shifting in and out of form beneath the black. Bound together by an unspeakable evil.

Solange Nicole

#32. The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing
that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#33. The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which reward the ambitious courage and toil of a mankind whose day is short on this earth of evil.

Joseph Conrad

#34. The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

Honore De Balzac

#35. I came to realize that good and evil were out of my reach, that time was the only thing I had any control over. I could buy time, create intervals. I could not truly make the world a better place, but I could make part of it a better place for a short while.

Sylvain Neuvel