Quotes About Evil

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it's a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

The true enemy of good isn't evil, but fear. Evil will battle good, but fear will corrupt it. — a Merraban saying, quoted by Admiral Pachelbel

The true enemy of good isn't evil, but fear. Evil will battle good, but fear will corrupt it.

Within mummies themselves lies the potential for greatness, be it great evil or great accomplishment, but titanic forces struggle to move them. Entire chronicles may hinge on that one fact.

It was their creed that devils had no place on earth, that evil was not a living creature in the world. There was no one to blame other than oneself.

Only turning God's house into a house of fervent prayer will reverse the power of evil so evident in the world today.

A human can be a real prick but maintain the capacity for good and a good hearted soul is capable of great evil. Never judge a person as absolutely one way or another because you sell the human race short when you do.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Anything good, honorable, and desirable in life is based on love. Anything bad or evil is simply life without the love involved.

It just doesn't make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies "out there" with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is "in here" with us—embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his Brother (presents the prototype of evil). And wherefore slew he him? (Cain was not a murderer because he killed his Brother, but killed his Brother because he was a murderer.) Because his own works were evil, and his Brother's Righteous (points directly to the Cross; the rejection of God's Way [the Cross], which Cain did, is labeled by the Holy Spirit as "evil"; Abel accepted the Cross [Gen., Chpt. 4]).

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.— Saint Augustine

Weakness begets evil

Being left alone - and I am being left alone - isn't quite as much what I wanted as I thought. Is this how people become evil? I don't want to be.

Yet I felt he was innocent in a way I was not, that I knew more about evil than he ever could, because he had parents who loved him and wanted the best for him, while I had grown up with Mummy.

Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

She has read LOTR, and I don't know if she read it identifying with all of the evil people and hoping the good ones wouldn't resist their temptations, but I know she has read it because the first time I read it, it was her copy. This proves that just reading it isn't enough. After all, the devil can quote scripture.)

I believe that Plato was correct in saying that our souls long for the Good, and that nobody chooses evil for themselves while recognizing that it is evil, though some may do it in ignorance.

Deus existe mesmo quando não há. Mas o demônio não precisa de existir para haver – a gente sabendo que ele não existe, aí é que ele toma conta de tudo. O inferno é um sem-fim que nem não se pode ver.