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Quotes About Evil

The devil always has the better tunes!
~ Rob James-Collier
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
~ Charles Trevelyan
Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door!
~ Alton Brown
Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
~ Michael Jackson
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
~ Hesiod
Hate reveals itself for what it really is - evil! It cannot see clearly, so it exposes itself at every turn, and those that truly love can see it.
~ KRS-One
If Americans will face the truth, our nation can be turned around and can be saved from the evils and the destruction that have fallen upon every other nation that has turned its back on God.
~ Jerry Falwell
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
~ Denis Diderot
If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.
~ Paul Bloom
Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.
~ John Ortberg
The moment you introduce the element of IT, which is an interdimensional evil entity, the presence of the turtle comes with it, as a counterbalance.
~ Andy Muschietti
The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.
~ Garry Winogrand
Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.
~ George Herbert
Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.
~ Greg Gutfeld
These are people that don't want to protect the American people... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.
~ Tom DeLay
We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.
~ John Lennon
It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.
~ Rand Paul
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
~ Ronald Reagan
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
~ Thomas Paine
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
~ Albert Camus
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
~ Saul Bellow