Quotes About Evil

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.

The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.

Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.

But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.

When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.

A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!

No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.