Quotes About Evil

The Universe] does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good is petty before nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that can not be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

I was a king. A ruler. I did not bag and tag humans like some evil hunter whenever I heard my name. I let my monstrous minions to that.

Evil is ancient, unchanging, and with us always. The more postmodern the West becomes — affluent, leisured, nursed on moral equivalence, utopian pacifism, and multicultural relativism — the more premodern the evil among us seems to arise in nihilistic response.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

Can man, created good by God, be made wicked by man?

Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst.

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

I believe Satan exists for two reasons: first, the Bible says so, and second, I've done business with him.

The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

When the world is filled with evil, Transform all mishaps into the path of bodhi.

Strife is food that feeds evil spirits.

If a man of real sensitivity and correct reasoning feels concerned about the evil and injustice of the world, he naturally seeks to correct it first where it manifests itself closest to home and that, he will find, is in his own being. This task will take him his whole lifetime.