Evil Quotes

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. It's a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion.

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

I get whiskey bent and hell bound.

When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.

When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

Remember two matters and forget two matters; 1. Remember Allah (SWT) and death. 2. Forget any good that you have done to another and any evil that was done to you by another

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world- and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.

No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.

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.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Money the root of evil guess I'm the devil then. God bless my soul to rest.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

But the Dark cannot claim what Light does not surrender.