Truly Evil Quotes

#1. I will be the lord of traveling salesmen!" "That," I said, "is truly evil.

Rick Riordan

#2. Horror does not need the dark, and sometimes a truly evil deed shuns the shadows.

Philip Kerr

#3. Mr. Beckwith, it is not possible for me to believe that God sees any true love as evil, no matter what the words of man might tell you. Hate is the only truly evil thing in the world. Second only to it false love, followed by its twin, hypocrisy. If your love was true, then it was blessed.

Ulysses Grant Dietz

#4. The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

Len Wein

#5. Very few people see their own actions as truly evil, ... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#6. She said there are evil men in the world, truly evil men. Sometimes we hear of them, but more often they work in absolute darkness.

Stephen King

#7. Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil. [Sophie]

Rachel Hawkins

#8. Truly evil people aren't given the license to linger. The fact that you've been here so long since death means you don't have any reason to fear what comes next." As

Dean Koontz

#9. I don't think we are cut out to be evil sorcerers, brothers," said Fentongoose. "If we were truly evil, we would not feel such sorrow at the deaths of our friends. We would just go, 'Ha! Ha! Ha!' or something.

Philip Reeve

#10. Let's just say you may regret that second piece of cake.'
Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil.

Rachel Hawkins

#11. In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Craig Bruce

#12. There may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen

Andrew Klavan

#13. In order to be good, you must recognize the difference between right and wrong and strive to choose the right. To be truly evil you must do the contrary. Being good or evil is a choice.

Brandon Mull

#14. Find the evil in the castle ... But the only truly evil thing in this world is the man ruling it.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. I have the belief that truly evil people, it's a genetic evil. I only have the experience of exploring the landscape of some of the characters I've played that people have labeled as evil; I don't think they're evil.

Glenn Close

#16. Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. Goodness will always win over evil, no matter how much the evil attempts to break you. More than that, you are never truly in darkness. Sometimes, all you need to do is turn on the light.

Melyssa Winchester

#18. The truly noble heart sacrifices itself for others' good, to defend the weak and the good against evil. To a heart like this, a heart devoted to chivalry, courage is a matter of form.

J. Aaron Gruben

#19. LEIA Thou truly art in jest. Art thou not small Of stature, if thou art a stormtrooper? Does Empire shrink for want of taller troops? The Empire's evil ways, I'll grant, are grand, But must its soldiers want for fear of height?

Ian Doescher

#20. Men were such strange creatures. Perhaps getting shot at and defending a woman against wild animals and evil archers truly was his idea of enjoyment.

Melanie Dickerson

#21. Truly, if ignorance is the foundation of any man's goodness, it is not worth the wind that upsets it, but in its mere self, ignorance of evil is a negative good.

George MacDonald

#22. Only then, when no situation or character is obviously good or evil, is it truly interesting to act.

Liv Ullmann

#23. I truly do believe that history teaches that weakness arouses evil, and whether it be the horrific attack in France, the inspired attacks here in the United States, the instability in Turkey that led to a coup.

Mike Pence

#24. Let education kindle only those which are truly beneficial
to the human species; let it favour those alone which are really necessary to the maintenance of society. The passions of man are dangerous, only because every thing conspires to give them an evil direction.

Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach

#25. I truly was Cinderella, only my prince threw away the glass slipper and stole me away before midnight struck. My prince was evil. My prince was the villain.

Pepper Winters

#26. In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

James Comey

#27. Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus.

John Newton

#28. I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. But I truly, deeply hated the evil that woman possessed. I hate it to this day.

Chris Kyle

#29. Humans have a great capacity for declaring something good or evil, without truly knowing.

Wm. Paul Young

#30. Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

Dan Quayle

#31. Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended ... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored ...

Soren Kierkegaard

#32. Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

Aeschylus

#33. Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?

Piper Kerman

#34. Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.

Mercedes Lackey

#35. Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Theodor W. Adorno

#36. Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

Euripides

#37. The only result of a truly dedicated campaign to get rid of evil will be the abolition of literally everybody.

Robert Farrar Capon

#38. We all draw different lines. Sometimes they intersect. Sometimes they don't. We agree on forms of evil, but judge degrees of it, saying only the worst of humanity is truly bad. And everything along the grey lines is subject to opinion.

Mike Wech

#39. It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

#40. Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them.

Blaise Pascal

#41. 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

#42. Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power of Halla. How sweet the moment of revelation will be, when he learns that he handed it to me." -SD the Pilgrims of Rayne

D.J. MacHale

#43. People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Terry Pratchett

#44. Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are

Soman Chainani

#45. Unlike those who fight truly intolerant things like terrorism throughout the world, Madonna is really the lone brave voice in the wilderness standing up against evil.

Greg Gutfeld

#46. It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.

Pope Benedict XVI

#47. Cling tightly to hope, just as you have in the past, my dear. Evil can't rule forever. I truly believe that.

Lisa Schroeder

#48. Maybe I was a fool to turn my back on him after his warnings, but the bad guys didn't warn you first. No, the truly wicked ones lured you in with kindness and then blindsided you with their mercilessness.

Heather Topham Wood

#49. Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

James Hogg

#50. Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#51. How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?

Ted Dekker

#52. I do not know that the Chinese system is any worse; there is a limit to the evil one despot alone can do, and if he is truly vicious he can be overthrown; a hundred corrupt members of Parliament may together do as much injustice or more, and be the less easy to uproot.

Naomi Novik

#53. You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.

Karen Marie Moning

#54. In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily pruning of the evil growth of our characters by a daily repen- tance from sin.

Harold B. Lee

#55. 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

#56. Far more beguiling than the idea that evil can be destroyed by throwing a piece of expensive jewelry into a volcano is the possibility that evil can be defused by talking. The fantasy of justice is more interesting than the fantasy of fairies, and more truly fantastic.

Terry Pratchett

#57. Patti told me that to truly love someone ,you must hold them in a open hand.That was how I needed to love Kai. It was necessary to uncurl my fingers and let him go

Wendy Higgins

#58. 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