Quotes About Evil

For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Ye are of your father the devil… there is no truth in him…. he is a liar, and the father of it.

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

This is an evil generation: they seek a sign.

Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Be not wise in your own conceits.Recompense to no man evil for evil.

One that feared God, and eschewed evil.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Even the DEVIL is only eighty percent EVIL, and not one hundred percent.

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness..

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)

In Mangando and Marimbanguengo, I saw the full misery and evil of the war, the pointlessness of it all, in the soldiers' eyes, like those of wounded birds, in their state of despair and abandon, in the second lieutenant in shorts sprawled on the table, the stray dogs gobbling up leftovers on the parade ground, the flag hanging from the flag­pole like a limp penis, I saw it in the twenty-year-old men sitting in the shade in silence, like old men in parks...

Coitados, pensavam que eu gostaria de ler histórias de pessoas sem contrastes, em que os bons são sempre bons e os maus sempre maus, e a bondade e a maldade se acham divididas por uma muralha da China bem definida, e ainda bem, para sabermos de que lado convém estar.

And it seems to me, Miss O'Breen, that to forswear mercy is to forswear humanity. If to destroy evil we take up its very weapons, we shall learn in time that all we have destroyed is the best in ourselves. [Jonadab Evans]

And the rising sun shall rise yet higher, destroying with its flaming fire the evil will of the wicked West, but smiling warmly on the rest.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.