Quotes About Evil

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.

I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person, but it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.

Wicked people never have time for reading," Dewey said. "It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

If you were going to give a gold medal to Count Olaf, you would have to lock it up someplace before the awarding ceremony, because Count Olaf was such a greedy and evil man that he would try to steal it beforehand.

La gente malvagia non ha mai tempo per leggere.

an Egyptologist will use the word "set" to refer to the ancient god of evil, although he does not come up very often in conversation.

He was such a sneaky and revolting person that the eldest Baudelaire simply could not accept that his scheme was only as evil as the average gym class.

And even the litter that was thrown out the window of Olaf's car—the clearest sign that evil people have driven by—was picked up off the road long before my work began.

Wicked people never have time for reading

Wicked people never have time for reading," Dewey said. "It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Busheney," Sunny said, which meant something along the lines of, "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

that horrible acts are caused, in part, by our very tendency to assume that some people are naturally evil.

All that's left for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

There are more worlds than one, and in many ways they are unlike each other. But joy and sorrow, or, in other words, good and evil,are not absent in their degree from any of the worlds, for wherever there is life there is action, and action is but the expression of one or other of these qualities.

The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.

Whoever Fights Monsters

The world is a good place, and so are most of the people who live in it. Evil people are a minority, and they're not supposed to win. When they go down, we have every right to pop a bottle of champagne and cheer.

Do you think I'm a bad person?" "It doesn't sound like you have enough time in your life to be a bad person." "Then why is God doing this to me?" "God isn't doing this to you. There's a lot of evil out there. When it touches people, they get hurt. No one's immune, not even good people like you.

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good, the Golux said, by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life. The firefly's ? said the minstrel. The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

It's an agent of the devil, sent to punish evildoers for having done less evil than they should.