Evil Quotes

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.