Quotes About Evil

American devils, whose only purpose is to kill you and your families in the most brutal, merciless ways possible.

What makes a monster and what makes a man?

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.' W.H. Auden, 'September 1, 1939', 1940

The choice between the ethical and the aesthetic is not the choice between good and evil, it is the choice whether or not to choose in terms of good and evil.

Then they'd be wrong. It's only our deeds that make us evil, Tanner; they're what define us, nothing else, not our intentions or feelings. But what are a few bad deeds compared to a life, especially the kinds of lives we can live now?

What could be better than being a shatterling? Only one thing, I thought to myself. Being a wicked shatterling. Being a devil instead of an angel. Having all that power, all that wisdom, but being able to do anything with it. Being able to destroy as well as create.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.

I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.

'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.

I believe that there is good. I believe there is evil. Do I believe that they come from God who is watching us conduct myriad never-ending wars and looks benignly on because there's higher purpose to all of this? I don't think so.

In my humble opinion, propaganda is one of the most evil tools humans have used against humans throughout history to justify wars, justify atrocities, justify evil. ISIS has taken it to a new extreme.

there are people in this world who commit horrifying and unnatural acts beyond anything your naive imagination could conceive. He is your worst nightmare. Heed my warning and stay away from him. I

No despreciéis el poder de la fealdad, porque es la puerta de la estupidez y ésta lo es a su vez de la maldad

That is the lesson that I have learnt to-night. By an act of betrayal I begot unknown to me a son who, whilst as ignorant as myself of our relationship, has come to be the evil genius of my life, to cross and thwart me, and finally to help to pull me down in ruin. It is just—poetically just. My full and resigned acceptance of that fact is the only atonement I can offer you.