Quotes About Evil

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

It is when we ask about the nature of this catharsis that we discover that culture itself represents something like the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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

Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.

The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown.

She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.

But today, after the hit and run, followed by a visit from Prince Charmless and his evil stepmother, I'd already lived through more drama than a soap opera actress in her tenth season.

It's not the wolf that makes the killer, Deputy. It's what lies in the heart of the man." -Ava

When we stop drawing a line between moral failings and evil, between the very things that make us human and those that take away our humanity—when we lose sight of mercy and mistake it for weakness, all is lost.

We need to understand that the suffering people cause themselves and others comes from this primitive aspect of human nature and isn't a reflection of their true nature or value as a human being. The only thing that allows us to hurt or go to war with others is the belief that they are evil rather than that they, like us, are driven by a primitive aspect of themselves that perpetrates evil.

As long as the book is read, people would die for it. She had been wrong to wait, wrong to think a safer time and place to stand for the truth would find her. Truth made the world unsafe. Truth spurred evil into action . There would be no end to evil, not in this world, not while the book was still open.

Quizás esté mal, Eva, pero el Mal también es parte del conocimiento.

Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.

Uniti rappresentavano un fronte invincibile. Doveva cercare di affrontarli a uno a uno. Perché nell'uomo solo anche la corazza del male è più fragile. Quando la coscienza inquieta urla e non c'è un coro di voci a sopraffarla.

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from?

The key to evil? Freedom. The key to freedom? Money. For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do . . .

I'd heard a Catholic nun on TV once saying that bearing suffering was the route to grace. I remembered Fluff saying: If there's a God he's addicted to faith. Because without evil there's no need for faith. I can't get excited about a God who's divinity depends on a drug habit.

There's no such thing as evil for its own sake . All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}.

In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.

Whatever the reason, too many are no longer willing to call evil by its name. There is no vision. And when there is no vision, the people perish.

Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name.

You finally did it! I suppose so. Though I don't really know what 'it' is. It is life, sweetie. Rich, abundant, thrilling life! You've embraced it... What he did to you was evil. But it struck me the other day that if you turn evil around, you're actually left with a pretty clear directive: live. And that's exactly what you're doing. You going to live. Really live.