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Quotes About Evil

Are you the devil?" Yoth Begail whispered. "Am I the devil?
~ Unknown
But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.
~ Maria McCann
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
~ Maria Montessori
takes its colours from the mind, my dear friend;"—he said—"If you discover evil suggestions in my music, the evil, I fear, must be in your own nature.
~ Marie Corelli
The little open door of each individual's inferior function is what contributes to the sum of collective evil in the world.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
What you seem to forget is that I'm not one of the embodiments of evil. I'm one of the embodiments of fear. That means I know what makes evil quake in the light of the sun.
~ Unknown
Horror is a situation, not a character, no matter how evil one may be.
~ Unknown
In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.
~ Glenn Beck, The Overton Window
Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
~ Pope John Paul II
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.
~ Phil Ochs
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
~ Seneca the Elder
These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.
~ John Milton
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
~ Saint Augustine
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.
~ Billy Graham
To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
~ Adam Hamilton
A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing in its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.
~ Mary Renault
Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.
~ George Lucas
Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door.
~ Turkish proverb
An evil spark flared in his eyes. "Trade: raccoon for some answers.
~ Unknown