Evil Quotes

It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

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.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.