Quotes About Evil

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

The Romans were not wiped out by the invasions of the barbarians, nor by the Christian virus, but by a more subtle evil, boredom.

R?ul, p?r?sind indiferen?a originar?, ?i-a luat Timpul ca pseudonim.

Her insan?n içinde bir peygamber uyuklar ve o uyand???nda, dünyadaki kötülük biraz daha artar...

Ferocity occurs in all conditions save in joy. Schadenfreude, malicious joy, is a misrepresentation. To do evil is a pleasure, not a joy. Joy, the one true victory over the world, is pure in its essence, hence irreducible to pleasure, which is always suspect, both in itself and in its manifestations.

When I lie awake far into the night, I am visited by my evil

Yet evil, the real evil, is behind, not ahead of us.

It is lonely, being an evil alien in disguise.

It should be observed, too, in fairness to the unroyal species of Cabinet government, that it is exempt from one of the greatest and most characteristic defects of the royal species. Where there is no Court there can be no evil influence from a Court.

Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

In the eyes of many Parisian women, Felix, a sort of hero of romance, owed much of his success to the evil that was said of him.

Moral philosophy and political economy both condemn the individual who consumes without producing; who fills a place on the earth but does not shed upon it either good or evil--for evil is sometimes good the meaning of which is not at once made manifest.

El hambre nocturna es un espíritu maligno que actúa independientemente de la personalidad de cada uno.

I heard heroes and saw them in my mind and imagined what evil was and cheered at its destruction. In the movies too, in film after film, evil could be destroyed.

I know that nothing strengthens community like a common enemy. I know that when religious people are feeling overwhelmed by a world with little use for their ancient truths, they can find new meaning by identifying a great evil to oppose.

The monsters aren't always in the closet or under the bed. Sometimes they're right in front of you, only everyone thinks they're the good guys.

To the pure, all things are pure," Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus' best soothsayer voice, "and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish.

Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.

The obsession with sorcery in Charles's case reflected a rising belief in the occult and demonic. Times of anxiety nourish belief in conspiracies of evil, which in the 14th century were seen as the work of persons or groups with access to diabolical aid.

Justice cannot be exerted in a vacuum where there is neither good nor evil, right nor wrong.