Evil Quotes

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

Dialogue is a necessary evil.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

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.