Evil Quotes

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?