Quotes About Evil

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

after I got the oven, an evil neighbor boy named Jeremy bullied me into letting him bake a frog in it. The house filled with a putrid stench, and Dad tossed the oven out onto the curb.

It is most necessary that we should have our hearts well established in the firm and unwavering belief of this truth, that whatever comes to pass, be it good or evil, we may look up to the hand and disposal of all, to God.

The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.

I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. --George Bernard Shaw

Why should we always "understand" our abuser, the villains, the mendacity of evil, the people who let

Maybe time will help me process and accept. Maybe it won't. Why should we always "understand" our abuser, the villains, the mendacity of evil, the people who let us down? Does understanding help us heal?

Hannah Arendt, a German-American political theorist. She used it in her 1960s thesis, where she postulated that all great evils in history, the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but by ordinary people who accepted the premise of their government or state.

what monsters might lurk in a man?

Calories, Emily said on a sigh. The evil tiny creatures that live in my closet and sew my clothes a little tighter every night.

My shoes," she said. ""I've got to take off my shoes." "Those aren't shoes. Those are evil devices designed to blow a man's mind, and they're staying on," he said in a very sexy voice.

Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real. Mab gave them lessons .

There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, What's up, boss? Evil's afoot. Well, sure, Bob said, because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.

But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil, damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness . . . . . . which could obviously be redeemed only by passing through the fiery, cleansing inferno of a wizardly digestive tract.

Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

Thomas looked like he was about to talk some smack at the malk, but only for a second. Then he frowned and said, It's odd. You sound like...like a grade-school teacher. Perhaps it is because I am speaking to a child, Cat Sith said. The comparison is apt. Thomas blinked several times and then he looked at me. Did the evil kitty just call me a child?

Oh, I get it, I said. You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?

Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real.

These evil freaks, Karrin said. They always pick the most charming places to hang out. Dark energy here, I said. Keeps people from wandering in and randomly interfering. And it feels homey. I know you haven't burned down any buildings in a while, she said, but if you start feeling the need...