Quotes About Evil

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

What will an angel say that the devil wants to know?

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.

As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

Never trust a southerner. No, I'm kidding. They're wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he's an evil kind of crazy man who's righteous. Fear the righteous.

I've always identified [myself] with the warrior and good over evil, and you don't negotiate for good over evil, if you want peace and love, kill people that deny you that.

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Evil is at its boldest when it walks an unerring path.

I would say, most of the time, yes. Fear that our opinions might be challenged. Fear that our way of seeing things might be called ignorant, self-serving, or indeed evil. Fear for our persons. Fear for our future, our fate. Our moment of death. Fear of failing in all that we set out to achieve. Fear of being forgotten.

Among humans, cold indifference was often manifested in acts of brutal cruelty, was often the true visage of evil

the question of what is deserved should rarely, if ever, be asked. Asking it leads to deadly judgement, and acts of unmitigated evil. Atrocity revisited in the name of justice breeds its own atrocity

Evil possessed myriad faces, and some of them were open and genuine. Whilst others, like Bauchelain's, revealed nothing, nothing at all. Imid could not decide which of the two was more frightening.

Some gifts are evil. Others are not, but what they are remains to be discovered. Rest

I do not want to meet my evil self,' said Pearl. Draconus glanced across at him. 'Who does?

There are those here who believe they are right simply because they oppose something that is evil.