Evil Quotes

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.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

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.

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.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.