Evil Quotes

Evil counsel travels fast.

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

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.

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.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

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

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

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.

I believe that dogma is often evil.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.