Quotes About Evil

It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

Victoria and Albert speedily assented. In Stockmar's undertaking to "strengthen the good [and] subdue … the evil dispositions of our Nature," Vicky would come through relatively psychologically intact. Her brother Bertie would not be so fortunate.

What does it take for a person to be able to recognize evil as it unfolds? To see with foresight and acuity .

This is what Ania will pay for: not only her inaction, but her self-deception, for narrating away evil while staring it in the face.

In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work

Hope always comes after evil has done its work. We cannot keep living on hope, though. (Box of Pandora)

There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away.

The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism.

I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.