Evil Quotes

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.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

The evil that we know is best.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.