Quotes About Evil

Let man but accumulate sufficient engines of destruction and the devil within him will soon be unable to resist putting them to their fated use. It is well known that firearms go off of themselves if only enough of them are together.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

It is with you all the time and demands fulfillment. If you pretend to be blind and dumb to this demand, you feign being blind and deaf to yourself This way you will never reach the knowledge of the heart. The knowledge ofyour heart is how your heart is. From a cunning heart you will know cunning. From a good heart you will know goodness. So that your understanding becomes perfect, consider that your heart is both good and evil. You ask, "What? Should I also live evil?

An evil person lurks inside all of us, and only if we recognize that fact can we hope to tame them [sic].

Fred's question: 'Dr. Orr, what is one little word that would wipe out evil?' 'Fred, it's 'forgiveness,' ' his mentor said without hesitation. 'The only thing that evil cannot stand is forgiveness. It simply disintegrates in the presence of forgiveness.

The only thing that evil cannot stand is forgiveness. It simply disintegrates in the presence of forgiveness." Orr

EVER SINCE 29 SEPTEMBER, 1938, discussions about war and peace in Europe have revolved around the same, fearful question: will this be a Sarajevo or a Munich? In other words: can a great deal of diplomacy achieve a shaky balance, or must evil be crushed by force? We know that, in both cases, a war was the result, we know that everything went wrong afterwards, but each time we come back to those two cities, those contrapuntal reference points for the twentieth

Never forget that evil is evil. You cannot change it. You cannot lead it to the light. But, if you let it, evil can lead you to the darkness.

The world could be a conniving harlot, as evil as a demon, but love would defeat her, every single time. Love never failed.

After the institution, Archer told me there's something about you…an inner strength very few people possess. A goodness untouched by the evil around you. A generosity of spirit that allows you to put the safety of others above the safety of yourself.

Jut then I'm stuck by a truth so real it might as well be a bolt of lightning: there is no greater evil than the one that cloaks itself in virtue.

The more evil you do, the more evil you are

Behold. I am an Evil Queen, and I like to cuddle.

T]he truth is the percentage of vampires that are also evil killers is about the same as the percentage of normal people who are also evil killers.

World-Honored One, You must know that in the muddied age Evil monks who do not understand The Buddha's skillful means— How the Dharma is taught In accord with What is appropriate— Will frown upon and abuse us. Repeatedly we will be driven out And exiled far from stupas and monasteries. Remembering the Buddha's orders, We will endure all such evils.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency... Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

And I know that the idea of an evil rogue Librarian must sound like some kind of rumour. The sort of rumour which gets passed down through the years to frighten the novices.

In brighest day In blackest night No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship evil's might Beware my power -- Green Lantern's light!

never, ever compare anybody to that particular person, since he was so much more evil than anyone else in history

But people with good manners never, ever do it in public, or when company is over. Especially when that company is an evil little worm.

Sathan, that evere us waiteth to bigile.

Evil is not good's absence but gravity's everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.

There is a line of demarcation well defined between the Lord's territory and the devil's territory. If you will stay on the Lord's side of the line you will be under his influence and will have no desire to do wrong; but if you cross to the devil's side of that line one inch you are in the tempter's power and if he is successful, you will not be able to think or even reason properly because you will have lost the Spirit of the Lord.