Quotes About Evil

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?

Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.

You can't get any more evil than Iago or Richard III. Those guys are bad.

Evil comes in through the cable and through the Internet. We look forward to the advent of driverless cars. But they can be hacked. You could be riding along, and some 14-year-old in Romania takes over your car, so you end up running the lights and losing your brakes or, worse, listening to Eminem. What's the purpose?

I was Satan's right hand man.

I don't think this one's business as usual. Me evil cunt sense is tinglin'.

He's got a soul so damn cold and rattlesnake mean, Satan himself threw him outta hell.

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Lirael almost apologized, but she held it back. She did feel sorry for Nick. It wasn't his fault he had been chosen by an ancient spirit of evil to be its avatar. She even felt sort of maternal to him. He needed to be tucked in bed and fed willow-bark tea. That thought led to the idle speculation of what he might look like if he were well. He could be quite handsome, Lirael thought, and then instantly banished the notion. He might be an unwitting enemy, but he was still an enemy.

Music is a great balm. Another thing evil sorcerers give up. They cannot abide music, for it can conjure all human emotions, most particularly joy and happiness.

Carefully determine what pleases the Lord. Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them. —Ephesians 5:10–11

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.

Better to be good without reason than to be evil for a hundred good reasons.

It is evil," the Old Wise One said. "For very long we have walked carefree in the only paradise. It would be better if all here were to die." The last Shadow child said firmly, "Nothing is worse than that I should die," and something that had wrapped the world was gone.