Quotes About Evil

Good always triumphs over evil, even though it can take a while. Light always overcomes darkness, even though it can seem awfully dark.

The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.

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

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

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

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection

If good at times springs out of evil, to God's almighty dispensation, not to evil, be the praise. He makes man's villainy to serve Him: that is His perquisite. But let no man believe that he serves God by villainy. The kiss of Judas brought Our Blessed Lord to the Cross and, thus, salvation to mankind, yet Judas hanged himself.

If being horrible was a mortal condition, then this whole world would be a grave.

Si el demonio supiera amar, dejaría de ser malvado

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just

I want to say something but shame prevents me yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say, shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just

I want to say something to you but shame disarms me' 'If you longed for the good or beautiful and your tongue were not concocting evil shame would not cover your eyes. Rather you would speak about the just

Psalm 52:3: "You love evil rather than good, and falsehood rather than truth.

You know me, Bobby--I have an instinct for crime. Where evil flourishes, there I will be, on my self-appointed mission to stamp it out.

For the past few years I've been on a quest to find a good definition of the imagination. To begin with, the task is rendered difficult by the general suspicion on the part of many decent Muggles1 that the imagination—loosely understood as the image-making faculty—is somehow evil or at least something we're supposed to grow out of.

And that's what we're truly longing for. On those weekends when we're suddenly gripped with the urge to watch all three extended editions of The Lord of the Rings, what we really want, deep down inside (besides therapy), is the assurance that there is a realm someplace where evil has been conquered once and for all.

They didn't understand that evil could grow if planted in a field of banal cruelty.

If he wasn't more careful, he could be caught by evil people with world-domination plans and forced to commit atrocious acts of atrocity.

I worried I might have a heart as evil and unfeeling as those savages. Just like back in the barracks, all I could think was, What about Clemmie? What about Iyaiya? And I sure didn't see any answers in the faces twisted with rage for a corn husk doll.