Quotes About Evil

A]ll historical and political evidence clearly points to the more-than-intimate connection between the lesser and the greater evil.… The natural conclusion from the true insight into a century so fraught with danger of the greatest evil should be a radical negation of the whole concept of the lesser evil in politics, because far from protecting us against the greater ones, the lesser evils have invariably led us into them.

Some people claim that money is the root of all evil. Could be. Others say that money can't buy you happiness. That may be true. But if you handle it right, money buys you freedom and time, and those are a lot more tangible than happiness

this. Evil exists because an airheaded bimbo, who started life as a man's rib, got tricked into eating a piece of bad fruit by a talking reptile.

Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk.

You have to go to what the essence of what Pennywise is about - the dark power of adulthood. It's not coincidence all the grown-ups in town are evil. This is not a story about a monster. It's a story about the end of childhood.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

The tree of knowledge of good and evil.

I'm not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It's a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go on. God is with us. God will help us. Trust Him.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

Remember, never to fear the power of evil more than your trust in the power and love of God.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.