Quotes About Evil

Man, remember, until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants...

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls. - On Religion

There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

Behind the cross stands the devil.

We are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature.

Evil is just what is positive; it makes its own existence felt.

the origin of wickedness is the cliff upon which theism, just as much as pantheism, is wrecked; for both imply optimism. However, evil and sin, both in their terrible magnitude, cannot be disavowed; indeed, because of the promised punishments for the latter, the former is only further increased. Whence all this, in a world that is either itself a God or the well-intentioned work of a God?

El mundo es el infierno, y los hombres se dividen en almas atormentadas y diablos atormentadores.

Em qualquer parte do mundo, não há muito a buscar: a miséria e a dor preenchem-no, e aqueles que lhes escaparam são espreitados em todos os cantos pelo tédio. Além do mais, via de regra, impera no mundo a malvadez, e a insensatez fala mais alto. O destino é cruel e os homens são deploráveis.

The world is just a hell and in it human beings are the tortured souls on the one hand, and the devils on the other

Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

There are days when you just don't feel all that evil. You don't become a world-class villain overnight. -Dr. Impossible

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their loved ones or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

There are no evil thoughts, Mr. Rearden, Francisco said softly, except one: the refusal to think.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, Who is destroying the world? You are.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. We have broken the laws. The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!