Quotes About Evil

The trouble with taking away the certainty of evil was that its vacuum was filled by all kinds of more nebulous threats, rivalries, and feuds. It became increasingly difficult to judge where the threat was coming from.

Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again.

Remember—the Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

I regard anticommunism as a matter of principle an evil even greater than communism itself.

In their castle beyond night Gather the Gods in Darkness, With darkness to pattern man's fate. The colors of darkness are no monotonous hue - For the blackness of Evil knows various shades, Full many as Evil has names. Vengeance and Madness, inseparable twins, Born together and worshipped as one; Nor can the Gods tell one from his brother. In their castle beyond night Gather the Gods in Darkness And darkness weaves with many shades.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win is for enough good women to do nothing.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.

Our own homegrown evil, I'm sorry to say. And instead of rooting them out, the plan is to let them flourish—but within a walled garden from which they cannot escape and spread their evil seed." A girl could die of old age following a metaphor like this, Juliet thought. "Very nicely put, sir," she said.

Ursula found it very odd to think that up above them there were German bombers being flown by men who, essentially, were just like Teddy. They weren't evil, they were just doing what had been asked of them by their country. It was war itself that was evil, not men. Although she would make an exception for Hitler.

misquote Edmund Burke rather than Milton. All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption; Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man; Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart; Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.