Quotes About Evil

I could conceive of them as evil, monstrous, and devoid of decency. Or I could think of them as men and sometimes women who are so controlled by their pain, they're unable to care enough about the people they hurt to be able to change their reprehensible behavior.

He'd forgotten: in fairylands there is evil, too. Monsters and curses. Dangers lurking in disguise. Demons, dragons, rats as big as oxen. things that could destroy you with a glance.

Insofar as the Ultimate, or the true nature of being is concerned, there are neither Buddhas nor demons. He who frees himself from fear and hope, evil and virtue, will realize the insubstantial and groundless nature of confusion. Samsara will then appear to be the Mahamudra itself. . . .

A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.

The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.

Evil happens without effort, naturally, inevitably; good is always the product of skill.

The loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.

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.

The devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist.

La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas." ( "The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist." )

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Do you think anti-Semitism influenced a person's decision on whether to help others? 3. What do you think of the people who hid Jews in exchange for money? Was it evil and exploitive or a fair business transaction? 4. In the beginning of the novel, Lucien didn't care about what happened to the Jews. Discuss how his character evolved throughout the novel. How did your opinion of him change?

I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

So it is that intelligent people often reserve their outrage almost exclusively for what they see as judgmental attitudes – - the one evil they are willing to indict with impunity.

When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of a tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God's supreme triumph of good over evil.

Evil is a coal: if it does not burn, it blackens. (Le mal est un charbon: S'il ne brûle pas, il noircit)

Satan plagiarized by dictator, and he does not even have copyright! (Satan plagié par dictateur, - Et il n'a même pas de droits d'auteur!)

Satan plagiarized by dictator, and he doesn't even have copyright! (Satan plagié par dictateur, - Et il n'a même pas de droits d'auteur!)

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out...

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!