Evil Quotes

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

Evil is only good perverted.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.