Quotes About Evil

But there's also an upside-down sort of happiness, a black happiness, that comes from doing evil to others.

I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.

Woman brings pain. Woman is evil. There are no exceptions. I tell you, even the angels are liars. What does Proust say? "We lie all our lives, and more especially, only perhaps, to those whom we love." Open your Proust. I have underlined it for you.

Am I hypnotized, fascinated by evil because I have none in me? Or is there in me the greatest evil?

If the "signs and wonders" are lightly dismissed, it is not because they are unreal, but because it is an evil and adulterous generation that asketh for a sign.

After much searching I have found the thing that sets me apart: a sort of stubborn attachment to evil.

I seek the crucial region of the soul where absolute Evil and fraternity clash.

This sacrifice, which saved his life, reminded him again that the evil of this world could be put to rout by the will of a single human being.

And yes, I mean it. A man who sticks his cock in an infant`s mouth belongs to Himmler`s circle of hell.

Humility, the place of entire dependence upon God, is from the very nature of things the first duty and the highest virtue of His creatures. And so pride—the loss of humility—is the root of every sin and evil.

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty of the creature, and the root of every good quality. Likewise, pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

To live the life of Christ means to him to be delivered from the life of self; the will of Christ is to him the only path of liberty from the slavery of his own evil self-will.

To deny or ignore the existence of an enemy is to give him a great chance against you; and the flesh is in the believer to the very end, a force of evil to be reckoned with continually, an evil force inside a man, and yet, thank God, a force which can be so dealt with by the power of God, that it shall have no power to defile the heart or deflect the will.

We cannot repay evil for evil. Evil can only be overcome with good.

We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

If lying seems the only option, given your fear or physical limitations, it clearly shifts the burden of combating evil onto others.

Whether or not one likes Huntington's formulation, one thing is clear: the evil that has finally reached our shores is not merely the evil of terrorism. It is the evil of religious faith at the moment of its political ascendancy.

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

You must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; --from fear of its being abused.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may properly be charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave No spot or stain behind. Milton.

All change is of itself an evil, which ought not to be hazarded but for evident advantage; and

It has been well observed, that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continuously repeated.