Evil Quotes

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

The evil that we know is best.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.