Quotes About Evil

By the fruit the tree is to be known. An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit.

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

I confess, when I propose a certain measure of policy, it is not enough for me that I do not intend anything evil in the result, but it is incumbent on me to show that it has not a tendency to that result.

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

The Devil's interval", Logan murmured. She looked at him. "I'm sorry?" "The flatted fifth. G flat, for example, over C. It was a particular interval between two notes banned from church music in the Renaissance for it's supposedly evil influence.

previous to the concept of humours, the practice of medicine was often nothing more than ceremonies to drive away evil spirits,

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a train of evil in the self-deception which regards them as final. I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions.

I'm talking about kids, Mrs. H. Terrible, dreadful, blasted awful kids. They've all got a darkness inside them. They've all got the capacity for evil. Give them free range over a piece of territory, like that out there, and you've got Lord of the Flies. You cannot afford to take your eye off the ball for a second. Not for even a second....

How much more of the taxpayers' money can I throw at this thing? An evil woman. A woman loved by nobody, missed by nobody, a woman with shards of ice in her heart. A case of child abuse where no evidence remains, where numerous people were in the house, where no records of any description exist for an entire six-year period of time, where a family of itinerants moved in and took over without anyone ever knowing. It's impossible. It's terrible.

Terrible, dreadful, blasted awful kids. They've all got a darkness inside them. They've all got the capacity of evil.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

It is fun to play evil parts... especially vampires.

Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

From one end to another in this war, we did not recognize our actions, we were not able to vindicate their consequences. The evil was everywhere, every choice was a bad choice, and yet it was necessary to choose and we are responsible. Every heartbeat thrust us into a guiltiness that horrified us.

If you believe that God makes miracles you have to wonder if Satan has a few up his sleeve.

Dexter siempre aplaude el espíritu caritativo, por supuesto. Pero en general, soy tan partidario de él porque casi siempre constituye una señal de advertencia de que algo inicuo, perverso e inquietante está sucediendo detrás de la máscara de la Madre Teresa.

The Priest used to try to scare us with these pictures of the Devil. Horns and red face and evil stare—but this guy is scarier, because he's just so fucking ordinary-looking and real but so totally fucking evil and really, really happy about that, and about being there with this chopped-up body. And

But what was the purpose of bringing them here and then re-creating her mother's crimes? The word scrawled on Nadine's mirror came to mind: Legacy. If her supervisor wanted to see her break, Crean wouldn't survive it, because evil didn't just live among them. It lived within them. Didn't interviewing Arleen Howler teach Crean that much?

How could they flee? How could they abandon Germany to evil men who were determined to destroy everything good about it?

all it took for evil to flourish was for good men to stand by and do nothing?