Evil Quotes

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

Evil changes everybody!

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.