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Quotes About Evil

But she's a redhead, so she's probably evil, even at her tender age.
~ Christopher Moore
Oh, that's heinous fuckery most foul," said Kona.
~ Christopher Moore
A general who wages war for a republic whose cause is not just would make devils of soldiers, and turn honor to evil.
~ Christopher Moore
All men are evil, that's what I was talking to my father about." "What did he say?" "Fuck 'em.
~ Christopher Moore
The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.
~ Christopher Paolini
No... I'll stay, said Eragon shakily, wiping his mouth. He avoided looking at the gruesome sight before them. Who could have done... He could not force out the words. Brom bowed his head. Those who love the pain and suffering of others. They wear many faces and go by many disguises, but there is only one name for them : evil. There is no understanding it. All we can do is pity and honor the victims.
~ Christopher Paolini
Brom bowed his head. Those who love the pain and suffering of others. They wear many faces and go by many disguises, but there is only one name for them: evil. There is no understanding it. All we can do is pity and honor the victims.
~ Christopher Paolini
One does not beg for a glass of water from the devil.
~ Christopher Pike
Is there any training that can prepare you for this moment, being face-to-face with a human monster, a man who seems to glide placidly through the everyday world in a baseball cap, smelling of Old Spice while concealing a gallery of horrors beneath his garage, in the back of his truck, inside his mind?
~ Christopher Rice
But as I witnessed what Dakova was capable of, I cared less about what the Guild did and didn't allow. He did not need black magic to perform evil. I saw him do things with his bare hands that I will never forget.
~ Trudi Canavan
So the darkness is there for the sake of light. Evil exists so that good might also be. Pain exists to make room for healing.
~ Tzvi Freeman
Evil is a terrorist, nursed on every spoonful of worry, encouraged with every glance of trepidation, fortified with every concession we make from our lives to acknowledge its threat
~ Tzvi Freeman
Classical mythology is a catalogue of indescribable cruelty: [...] It is a world dominated by evil, where even the most beautiful beings carry out atrocities.
~ Umberto Eco
As long as you remain in your private vacuum, you can pretend you are in harmony with the One. But the moment you pick up the clay, electronic or otherwise, you become a demiurge, and he who embarks on the creation of worlds is already tainted with corruption and evil.
~ Umberto Eco
Os homens nunca praticam o mal tão completa e entusiasticamente como quando o fazem por convicção religiosa.
~ Umberto Eco
De mens bedrijft het kwaad nooit zo hartstochtig en vol overgave als wanneer hij dat doet uit godsdienstige overtuiging.
~ Umberto Eco
If the eye could see the demons that people the universe, existence would be impossible. —Talmud, Berakhot, 6
~ Umberto Eco
Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun.
~ Umberto Eco
The prince of darkness is a gentleman. —Shakespeare, King Lear, III, iv
~ Umberto Eco
A scoundrel is an evil heliotrope turning always in the direction of the most powerful.
~ Umberto Eco
They keep saying that their kingdom is not of this world, then take everything they can lay their hands on. Civilization will never reach perfection until the last stone of the last church has fallen on the last priest, and the earth is rid of that evil lot.
~ Umberto Eco
Chi ride è malvagio solo per chi crede in ciò di cui si ride.
~ Umberto Eco
Los hombres nunca hacen el mal de forma tan completa y entusiasta como cuando lo hacen por convencimiento religioso.
~ Umberto Eco
The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more evil, the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemurs who want your ruin, the more they will be outcast.
~ Umberto Eco