Evil Quotes

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.

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.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.