Quotes About Evil

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

I not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.

we grant evil freewill (or freewill to evil) is remaining in all natural men: we believe that freewill to good, is from grace and regeneration.

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.