Top 100 True Evil Quotes
#1. How do you measure what's real, what's true? How do you stack up all that's pure against all that's evil?
Jennifer Handford
#2. SOCRATES: For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him? CRITO: Very true. SOCRATES: Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to anyone, whatever evil we may have suffered from him.
Plato
#3. Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.
Phineas Quimby
#4. The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.
Swami Vivekananda
#5. I've often wondered if Morality is an attribute of Reason. Of course, evil is always buttressed by 'reasonable' arguments. Yet, what if True Reason is an attribute of Morality, and True Morality an attribute of Reason?
Rikki Ducornet
#6. 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
#7. Darkness is only a form of light, one that the foolish consider evil, those that see it as the devil and choose to destroy and or punish the darkness. True evil comes from those who cause such pain, true evil comes from the light, not the dark.
Conner Faller
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.
Susan Estrich
#12. A thing doesn't have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not evil or malicious.
Frank Delaney
#13. 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.
#14. True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. I keep order in a world full of chaos. I am perceived as evil, but true evil? The type that people fear - it masquerades as something far more worse than darkness." ~ Luca Nicolosi, Elect by Rachel Van Dyken
Rachel Van Dyken
#16. We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
Dean Koontz
#17. You're evil. It's your worst fear. And it's true.
Unknown
#19. Human relationships have to be rediscovered every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbor is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin.
Natalia Ginzburg
#20. World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
Ken Follett
#21. The matter ended in my giving up my room. I had a strange reluctance to making the offer. which surprised myself. Was it a boding of evil to come? I cannot say. We are strangely and wonderfully made. It may have been. ("Horror: A True Tale")
John Berwick Harwood
#22. 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
#23. What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
John Milton
#24. The true dimensions of a soul are seen in its delights. Not what we dutifully will but what we passionately want reveals our excellence or evil.
John Piper
#25. Evil? (Sin)
To the core of her rotten soul. (Kat)
It's true. There's nothing like a bitch in heels, of which I'm the biggest. I know there has to be a point to this, since you're in a dream with gorgeous twins and nobody's naked. I could have sworn I taught you better, Katra. (Kytara)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#26. God's strength is rooted in being faithful to his true Self, in just Being good. The Devil's strength depends on synergies, agreements, cooperation and beliefs.
Robin Sacredfire
#27. A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.
Francis Quarles
#28. I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.
Charles Brockden Brown
#29. The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.
Francis Bacon
#30. I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The true prince of evil- the king of the slaves!
Anton Szandor LaVey
#31. No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ezra Taft Benson
#33. Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.
Mark Twain
#34. Goethe said, "A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." The same holds true for demons. If you look for evil, you will find it.
Jack Grisham
#35. Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.
Raisa Gorbacheva
#36. Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
Dmitri Shostakovich
#37. Nice is akin to not walking under ladders or stepping on cracks. It's a superstitious hedging of bets. A part of you thinks your good behavior will ward off evil. Well, apparently that's not true.
Deb Caletti
#38. All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#39. Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin
#40. O Christian, never be proud of things that are so transient, injurious, and uncertain as the riches of this evil world! But set your heart on the true and durable riches of grace in Christ Jesus.
Isaac Ambrose
#41. It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me
Lynda Barry
#42. I believe true evil lies in actions. In deliberate harmful acts.' 'Spoken
Ian C. Esslemont
#43. Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right.
"The common good and the individual good rarely coincide ... "
Sure, I know, it's true.
But some truths are probably worse than lies.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#44. Like all of us, I don't think Facebook is 100% evil, but there are aspects of it that move towards evilness. It's true of all the major Silicon Valley companies, that there are aspects to all of them that move towards evilness, but I don't believe they're 100% evil.
Gene Luen Yang
#45. Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless that, in the blackness, all one could make out were the contours of despair.
Laura Tillman
#46. If the wheels of the universe are in true, then good always compensates for for evil-- but good can be awful as well.
Stephen King
#47. And when people cease to believe that there is good and evil,
Only beauty will call to them and save them
So that they will know how to say: this is true and that is false.
Czeslaw Milosz
#48. The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are meted out to the evil and the greatest of blessings to the good.
Epicurus
#49. Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#50. The Lady was medicine bad enough. The Dominator, though, was the body of which her evil was but a shadow. Or so the legend goes. I sometimes wonder why, if that is true, she walks the earth and he lies restless in the grave.
Glen Cook
#51. True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#52. I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
Sam Raimi
#53. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt
#54. [A]fter all it was true that a girl does not go alone in the world unchallenged, nor ever has gone freely alone in the world, that evil walks abroad and dangers, and petty insults more irritating than dangers, lurk.
H.G.Wells
#56. In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil.
Ayn Rand
#57. The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good.
Abraham Lincoln, Original Quote
Seth Grahame-Smith
#58. You mean that between desiring good and desiring evil there is a brief step, because it is always a matter of directing the will. This is true. But the difference lies in the object, and the object is clearly recognizable. God on this side, the Devil on that.
Umberto Eco
#59. Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.
Pope Francis
#60. Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.
Cecelia Ahern
#61. If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured.
Charles Hodge
#62. We must desire to be separated unto the Lord from the world and its evil system. We must reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God. This is true positionally, but it can be made true in our spiritual life only as we yield to the Holy Spirit's control.
Theodore Epp
#63. If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
#64. It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
Max Weber
#65. Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.
Walter Mosley
#66. Even the kingdom of evil came to seem to me like only the empty space where true love might have been.
Andrew Klavan
#67. The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is said is true. He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him?
Saint Basil
#68. 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
#69. If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.
Moby
#70. True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.
John Winthrop
#71. 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
#72. but I am so nauseated by Christian and Theosophical guff about the 'good and the true' that I prefer the appearance of evil to that of good.
George Pendle
#73. Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#74. I don't care how the sin ledger stands. There seem to be a number of artificial standards of good and evil that don't really relate to true merit or demerit. Maybe the official system of classification has failed to keep up with the changing nature of our society.
Piers Anthony
#75. A choice is an act of god, malevolent or loving is your will, free until conflicting with others who share this power, a true collision of good and evil.
K.R. Royal
#76. True evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#77. It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself.
Henry David Thoreau
#78. I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.
William Friedkin
#79. Money was merely the means to an end. The true root of all evil was selfishness.
Nina Mason
#80. There's a point at which when I start to know a man well
this isn't true of women
I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something that's pure and can't be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics.
Kathy Acker
#81. The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party, History, the Proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.
Lloyd Billingsley
#82. Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.
Gregory Of Nazianzus
#83. O benefit of ill! Now I find true
That better is by evil still made better;
And ruin'd love, when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
So I return rebuk'd to my content,
And gain by ills thrice more than I have spent.
William Shakespeare
#84. In truth, if I admitted to the world that I believe God made me as I am, the church would excommunicate me, but I know this to be true. I am not an evil man - nor greedy, nor cruel to those in need. Yet the law would have me hang for love, the purest of human emotions.
H.C. Brown
#85. Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His Presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature.
Graham Cooke
#86. Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true - in average. What often does promote evil behavior is the lazy, nasty habit of believing that generalizations have anything at all to do with individuals.
David Brin
#87. You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength."
"Strength," she said with a little laugh. "I gave her strength, and look what she did with it.
Laini Taylor
#88. Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
#89. Heaven and Hell. White and black. Good and evil. This was a face-off between light and dark, as stark and true as any war since time immemorial. The
Mark Cassell
#90. If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.
Richard Kearney
#91. True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#92. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength -Brimstone
Laini Taylor
#93. I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?
Charles Portis
#94. The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.
Paul Tillich
#95. Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.
Wojciech Kurtyka
#96. The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#97. What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.
Robert Kazinsky
#98. I'm not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It's a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.
Jonathan Maberry
#99. If we stood close to each other, side by side, as true brothers and sisters, then evil would not know how to stand between us.
Suzy Kassem
#100. Many people would say that money is the root of all evil, which is not entirely true. The root of all evil is ignorance, and the economic state of our society is a result of ignorance.
Joseph P. Kauffman
