Evil Quotes

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.

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

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.

If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.