Evil Quotes

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.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

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

All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.