Evil Quotes

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard?

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.