Quotes About Evil

The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

say that evil happens when good men do nothing. And the Democrats prove it also happens when mediocre people do nothing.

Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying, Snow said. It can make up for evil done to you, but can destroy the remaining good in your life.

Himmler is the man whom General Heinrich Hossbach described as "Hitler's evil spirit, cold, calculating and ambitious … undoubtedly the most purposeful and most unscrupulous figure in the Third Reich.

Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.

Evil is never done so thoroughly or so well as when it is done with a good conscience.

Nie betrieben die Menschen das Böse so umfassend und freudig wie aus religiöser Überzeugung.

We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction.

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.

And at this point he made his fatal, terrible mistake. He mistook the spirit of the times, the social, universal evil, for a private and domestic one. He listened to our cliches, to our unnatural official tone, and he thought it was because he was second-rate, a nonentity, that we talked like this. I suppose you find it incredible that such trivial things could matter so much in our married life. You can't imagine how important this was, what foolish things this childish nonsense made him do.

A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.

As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, 'Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Evil arrives faster than it departs.

Godspeed. Citius venit malum quam revertitur. Evil arrives faster than it departs. PROLOGUE ITALIAN COAST GUARD HEADQUARTERS MARITIME RESCUE COORDINATION CENTER ROME An explosion of thunder shook the building as Lieutenant Pietro Renzi, dressed in his Navy whites, answered the phone in front of him.

The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.

He can do all these things, yet he is not free. Nay, he is even more prisoner than the slave of the galley, than the madman in his cell. He cannot go where he lists, he who is not of nature has yet to obey some of nature's laws, why we know not. He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please. His power ceases, as does that of all evil things, at the coming of the day.

But to fail here, is not mere life or death. It is that we become as him; that we henceforward become foul things of the night like him –without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the souls of those we love best.

You must fight Death himself, though he come to you in pain or in joy; by the day, or the night; in safety or in peril! On your living soul I charge that you do not die - nay nor think of death - till this great evil be past.

The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me; with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.

It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?

an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

Overweight southern senators are easy targets. They too easily become focal points of all evil, allowing the arts community to willfully ignore our own bigotry, our own petty evils, our own intolerance which--evil senators or no--will be the death of the arts.

Talking to yourself? Her father turned the corner of the house to join her amid the rows of roses. Sneaking was evil, she decided. No. I was… just conversing with the new rosebush, she stammered, feeling her cheeks warm. Ah. And did it answer? I believe it to be shy. If it everdoesanswer, you will inform me, won't you ? Very amusing.