logo

Quotes About Evil

Fear is an uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.
~ John Locke
We all listen to two voices. One voice leads us to our vices. The other voice leads us to our virtues. One voice brings evil. One voice brings good. If you add a D to the beginning of the word evil you realize where vices come from. If you take away an O from the word good you realize where virtues come from. We all struggle with life at times. The key is to listen to the right voice.
~ Tom Krause
All that is necessary for the triumph of Evil is for the Good men to do nothing.
~ Unknown
Fear not of evil Everyday dem flesh it grow old Changes of the time take the toll.
~ Damian Marley
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil
~ Albert Schweitzer
It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Never have I seen a world without evil, but never have I either seen a world without good. Light and dark balanced, differences and religions set aside, we join in times of loss.
~ Unknown
Alcohol leaves you BREATHLESS. Drugs leave you SENSELESS. Evil leaves you HEARTLESS. Death leaves you LIFELESS. But God won't leave you...REGARDLESS.
~ Unknown
Of all the modes by which love is brought into being, of all the agents which disseminate the holy evil, surely one of the most efficacious is this great gust of agitation
~ Marcel Proust
there is in the sadist — good as he may be, indeed the better he is — a thirst for evil that malefactors cannot satisfy.
~ Marcel Proust
every time that she indulged in it, pleasure came to her attended by evil thoughts such as, ordinarily, had no place in her virtuous mind, she came at length to see in pleasure itself something diabolical, to identify it with Evil.
~ Marcel Proust
The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you are not the result of training at home, by a father, or by masters at school, they have sprung from beginnings of a very different order, by reaction from the influence of everything evil or commonplace that prevailed round about them. They represent a struggle and a victory.
~ Marcel Proust
Behold the word: Destroy, destroy, destroy. Destroy within yourself; destroy what surrounds you. Make space for your soul and for all other souls. Destroy all good and all evil. Their ruins are the same. Destroy the old dwellings of man and old the dwellings of the soul; what is dead is a distorting mirror. Destroy, for all creation comes from destruction. And for higher benevolence you must annihilate lower benevolence. And thus new good appears saturated with evil.
~ Unknown
There is little that Satan hates more than godly repentance.
~ Unknown
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Too many people, when they reject God, go on believing in the devil. Many intellectuals have a sense of evil without a confidence in good.
~ Margaret Mead
Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. "This is wrong", he thought, "Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.".... He breathed in the too-sweet smell of rotting food, "I can stop this evil.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
~ Margaret Thatcher
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
~ Margaret Walker
He likes to complain. It feels natural to him. He was unhappy a long time, and complaining makes him feel as if he's warding off greater evil.
~ Marge Piercy
Whenever the balance of power was unequal, there was a driver and a driven. Power was the lethal vice, the turn-on with evil built into it, because it required a victim to manifest itself. Power implied subject and object. They needed some way to recognize (for everyone to recognize) that everybody was a subject.
~ Marge Piercy
These words came, quite clear, like small, evil people, across the cobbles to Branza's ankles, where they stood and smirked up at her.
~ Unknown
I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.
~ Margot Kidder