Quotes About Evil

To say that the world is not worth anything, that this life is of no value and to give evil as the proof is absurd, for if these things are worthless what does evil take from us?

A society like the Church, which claims to be divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains than on account of the evil which sullies it.

Monotonie du mal : rien de nouveau, tout y est équivalent. Rien de réel, tout y est imaginaire. C'est à cause de cette monotonie que la quantité joue un si grand rôle. Beaucoup de femmes (don Juan) ou d'hommes (Célimène), etc. Condamné à la fausse infinité. C'est là l'enfer même.

growing in faith and love for Christ, revealed as He is in Scripture, will be the greatest of all preservatives against being led astray. The person who is saturated in the teaching and spirit of the Gospels will have his or her senses trained ... to distinguish good from evil (Heb. 5:14, NIV) and to know what is truly Christ-like and Christ-honoring.

Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.

I can never forgive evil and lying and cruel means, and still less can I forgive fanatics that use that for an excuse!

He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

Think again, Electra. Don't say anymore. Don't you see what you're doing? You make your own pain. Why keep wounding yourself? With so much evil stored up in that cold dark soul of yours you breed enemies everywhere you touch.

The end excuses any evil.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

Rose the joint evil that is now o'erflowing. And the old happiness in that past day Was truly happy, but the present hour Hath pain, crime, ruin:—whatsoe'er of ill Mankind have named, not one is absent here.

I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good. - Creon

Evil gains work their punishment.

Am I all evil, then? It must be so. If I was created so, born to this fate, who could deny the savagery of God? May I never see that day! Never! Rather let me vanish from the race of men Than know the abomination destined me!

You drive me back down my desperation—that unclouded incurable never forgotten evil growing inside my life.

I'm so immersed in all this evil, how could I not be evil too?

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored....

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.