Quotes About Evil

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

The devil reigns in me more than in any man I can think of.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.

I can find some part of me that relates to even the most evil characters. At least in my imagination.

I'm a character and relationship guy, and even with the 'Saw' films, it's special-effects people's jobs to create these scary things. It's not my job. My job is to bring some sense of humanity to the character, no matter how evil he may be. The script is going to take me there.

My resonance to Magneto and Xavier was borne more out of the Holocaust. It was coming face to face with evil, and how do you respond to it? In Magneto's case it was violence begets violence. In Xavier's it was the constant attempt to find a better way.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

In my home, life was framed as an epic spiritual battle between good and evil.

We have to be able to protect the homeland, and we have to be able to restrain evil in the world.

I really hope that America can end the evil of abortion.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

There aren't demons flying around with horns, people are demons.

I do prefer playing baddies because you can push being horrible as far as you want.

What's important to me about horror stories is to look at what's actually horrifying about humanity, instead of shining a flashlight on it and running away giggling.

I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart.

One who does evil is tormented in this life, Tormented in the next, Is tormented in both worlds. Here he is tormented, knowing, "I have done evil." Reborn in realms of woe, he is tormented all the more.

You know how, in court, they talk about the CSI effect? Like, everyone on the jury has watched so much CSI that they believe science can prove anything? Yeah. Well, I think there's an Evil Husband effect. Everyone has seen too many true-crime shows where the husband is always, always the killer, so people automatically assume the husband's the bad guy.

My story for the day was a limp sort of evil.

She defines and eliminates problems. She's practical in an evil way.

Mom, you are the most gracious, generous person I know and someday I will write a book in which the mother is not a) evil or b) killed.