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Quotes About Evil

to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There is talk in the village that there is more in these sewers than sewerage. Yes, I say, Yes. But not only these sewers. There is more in your heart than can be spoken. More in your eyes than you will tell. More in the mind of you than anyone can know. More in the night than darkness. More in the river than can be dredged. What more ? The hate, envy, malice, greed, stupidity and evil that lie under the floor of everything. If I have secrets so do you.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Of course people mutilate and modify, but these are fallen powers, and to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change. Of course people mutilate and modify, but these are fallen powers, and to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change. Of course people mutilate and modify, but these are fallen powers, and to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
~ Jeanette Winterson
God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
La integridad de un hombre de bien es siempre antipática a los malvados.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Impossibile, si è creature nate sotto il cielo, ecco il male.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.
~ Lydia M. Child
[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.
~ Hillary Jordan
Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.
~ Clive Barker
Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.
~ Greg Koukl
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free.
~ Henry Fielding
America is best when we work in collaboration with our allies. America is best when we are actually standing up to evil in this world. And ISIS, make no mistake about it, is an evil in this world.
~ Hillary Clinton
As anyone who's done any acting will tell you, if you haven't got a malicious evil streak, it's such a joy to let one out.
~ Greg Davies
It's much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil.
~ Oren Etzioni
A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking, in my opinion, in history; but it may lead to events which will make it a mighty evil.
~ John C. Calhoun
I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.
~ Ashley Wagner
Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.
~ Bjornstjerne Bjornson
I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
~ Vanessa Paradis
I do believe quite strongly in evil.
~ Anthony Horowitz