Evil Quotes

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

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

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

A great book is like great evil.

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.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

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.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

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

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Evil changes everybody!

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?'

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

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.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

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.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

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

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

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

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard?

The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

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

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

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.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.