Evil Quotes

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.