Quotes About Evil

Of all the varieties of violence of which our sorry species is capable, genocide stands apart, not only as the most heinous but as the hardest to comprehend.

The romantic notion that all evil is a product of society has justified the release of dangerous psychopaths who promptly murdered innocent people. And the conviction that humanity could be reshaped by massive social engineering projects led to some of the greatest atrocities in history.

evil, in fact, is perpetrated by people who are mostly ordinary and who respond to their circumstances, including provocation by the victim, in ways that they feel are reasonable and just.

Beelzebug n. Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It's also the root of a lot of bad art.

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

There is no evil that the father's love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!

We rant and rave against God for the evil we have to endure but hardly blink at the evil in our own hearts.

I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

That's poetic in its malevolence

Consult your resentment. It's a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology. It's part of an evil triad: arrogance, deceit, and resentment. Nothing causes more harm than this underworld Trinity.

I believe that the good that people do, small though it may appear, has more to do with the good that manifests broadly in the world than people think, and I believe the same about evil. We are each more responsible for the state of the world than we believe, or would feel comfortable believing.

Evil is the force that believes its knowledge is complete.