Evil Quotes

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above 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.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.