Evil Quotes

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.

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

All evil begins with this belief: that another’s existence is less precious than mine.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it.

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

To read too many books is harmful.

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

You're fighting a battle of good and evil with your dog pimp! Your only weapon is the shimmy! There is power in the shimmy! Make him fear your shimmy! Now, goddamnit, show me your war shimmy!

The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.

Evil must always be fought.

Before you think good or evil, who are you?

In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world.

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil.

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

Fear not of evil.. Everyday dem flesh it grow old Changes of the time take the toll.

I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics.

Man is the cruelest animal.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.