Quotes About Evil

He believed that light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.

Evil is unspectacular and always human,

where else would you find darkness but right up against the light? What greater triumph for evil than to ruin a garden?

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table,' Jane said almost under her breath. 'Auden,' she explained, nodding to the book in Gabri's hand and flashing a smile that broke the unexpected, and unexplained, tension.

from W. H. Auden: "Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table,' Jane said almost under her breath.

you said that Hell is empty and all the devils are here. What did you mean?

Evil is unspectacular and always human, Auden had written. And shares our bed and eats at our own table. Armand had

But looking at the young men and women staring at him now, who'd seen something terrible about to happen and had done nothing, Chief Inspector Gamache wondered if he could have been wrong all this time. Maybe the darkness sometimes won. Maybe evil had no limits.

Armand Gamache had always held unfashionable beliefs. He believed that light would banish the shadows. That kindness was more powerful than cruelty, and that goodness existed, even in the most desperate places. He believed that evil had its limits.

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients--or their lack--and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.