Quotes About Evil

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

The man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.

The Monster's crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

"Evil men have no songs." How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.