Evil Quotes

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

We are all born marked for evil.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

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

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That's called dressing, and that's not evil - stuffing is, though.

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

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

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.