Evil Quotes

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

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.

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

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.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

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

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

A great book is like great evil.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.