Evil Quotes

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

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.

Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.

Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.

I think my ex-girlfriend has weekly lessons with the devil on how to be more evil. I don't know what she charges him.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.

Dialogue is a necessary evil.

No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions.