Evil Quotes

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

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.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be.

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

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

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

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

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.