Evil Quotes

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.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.