Quotes About Evil

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.

Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.

Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

Since reason is man's basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.