Evil Quotes

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.

Evil gains work their punishment.

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

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

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

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

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.