Evil Quotes

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I believe that dogma is often evil.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.