Quotes About Evil

Not everything that happens during the day is an omen portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth.

journeying through the fields of evil is the price we pay for free will

By now, he should not be the least surprised by the capacity of evil people to deceive their credulous friends and neighbors—or by the unconscious preference of so many people to be deceived.

guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

in the perpetual struggle of good and evil, the latter must be resisted without fail.

Listen, did any of those girls feel less pain because Salsbury's evil isn't entirely his own doing? I'm an old-style liberal when it comes to most things. But this liberal line about compassion for the criminal—that's ninety percent horseshit. You

Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood. I

David wondered what kind of dark-minded people wanted items from the abattoir of a rapist-murderer and how Stuart Ulrich knew where to advertise to attract their attention.

Truly evil people aren't given the license to linger. The fact that you've been here so long since death means you don't have any reason to fear what comes next.

THE DEVIL IS IN THE DIGITAL DATA.

Evil can disguise itself in piety and charity

why. Now she arrives at the realization that the why of evil is not to be found anywhere in the flaws of society or its institutions, nor can it be pinned down by even the most erudite and loquacious philosopher. The why of evil is in the human soul, which can't be examined with a CT scan or MRI to locate a dark mass, or dissected in an autopsy to learn in what artery the calcification proved mortal.

Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage

He didn't mind killing children. He looked forward to it.

Criminals are as absurd as they are evil.

They feed on violence, but they feast on the despoiling of what is good.

The only monsters were people.

The cold tide of evil rises relentlessly. Although the dikes that resist it can be built higher, the power of such an insistent tide is greater even than the power of a deep sea of water; though perhaps nothing can stand against Evil forever, there is at least a kind of honor in undertaking the effort to restrain the ultimate flood as long as possible.

the recognition of Evil, not as it was portrayed by Disney villains, but as it was in fact: ruthless and irrational, selfish above all else, convinced of its righteousness and of the beauty of disorder.

if their business model had been to wait for good people to pay for evil people to be killed, they probably wouldn't have a lot of customers for their service. Good people didn't solve their problems that way. Which was one reason why bad people got away with being bad for so long. He might have continued staring at Enter Your Password and brooding about good and evil, but a strange and disturbing thing happened.

There was a time to take refuge in the arms of those you loved, and there was a time to stand up to great evil and be not bowed. If you didn't know the difference, then you were doomed to perish about two-thirds of the way through the story, when the narrative needed a jolt of violence and emotion.

I understand why the world is shapen as it is, that we should have free will and be more than ants, that we must know evil if we're also to know good.

Artificial intelligences, if they became self-aware, would in every case be deeply evil because they had no soul. Machine thinking was not like human thinking and never could be. Life in the flesh, with five senses and an awareness that one day you would die, gave birth to emotions that no machine could ever know, and emotions like sympathy and pity and love were essential for the existence of mercy.

On Evil: There's too much darkness in some people, corruption that could never be cleaned out in five lifetimes of rehabilitation. Evil is real, it walks the earth. Sometimes the devil works by persuasion. Sometimes he just sets loose these sociopaths who don't have a gene for empathy or one for compassion.