Quotes About Evil

I believe," he said, "in what I call the secret mainstream. Kafka was there too. Today, yes, we know Kafka was the voice of an overwhelming bureaucracy with a deep evil inside of it. Often we see these figures in the secret mainstream. I am one of them.

For evil to succeed, all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

Since I am as evil as can be, I do need religion to offset my evilness!

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

When 9/11 happened, it affected everything. It affected me. I'm an American, and I'm like, 'Oh my God, this is evil. This is terrible.'

The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

I feel like with the whole Internet era, people can be so judgmental and evil online.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

The past could always be annihilated; regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in him that would find their terrible outlet, dreams that would make the shadow of their evil real.

I would sooner say, or hear it said of me, that I was so typical a child of my age, that in my perversity, and for that perversity`s sake, I turned the good things of my life to evil, and the evil things of my life to good.

He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvelous and evil so full of subtlety.

Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.

For all sins, as theologians weary not of reminding us, are sins of disobedience. When that high spirit, that morning star of evil, fell from heaven, it was as a rebel that he fell.

When that high spirit, that morning star of evil, fell from heaven, it was as a rebel that he fell.

ingenium mala saepe movent

Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything - except human happiness. That they can never know and therefore they grudge it to men. Nothing makes them so evil and cruel as that men should presume to be happy and forget them for the sake of their earthly happiness.

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary.

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.

Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a personification of Light and Darkness at their most elemental level, as forces that are so absorbed with themselves that one cannot exist without the other though they constantly try to consume one another. One of the earliest repersentations of Light and Darkness was of Light being a massive black bull and Darkness being an enormous white bull.