Quotes About Evil

Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.

Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.

For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see evil triumphant; but if you have learned to let your glance rest on sincerity, simpleness, truth, you will ever discover, deep down in all things, the silent overpowering victory of that which you love.

Through the whole course of history, two distinct willpowers have been noticed that would seem to be the opposed, elemental manifestations of the spirit of our globe, the one seeking only evil, injustice, tyranny and suffering, while the other strives for liberty, the right, radiance and joy.

There is no longer any great risk that Freudian research will shock us by recalling what there is of the 'barbarian' in us; the risk is rather that its findings will be too easily accepted in an 'idealist' form…Today there is a race toward psychoanalysis, just as there was once a flight from it. Yesterday it was the spirit of evil; today one trims its claws and adopts it.

There is equal weakness in blaming ourselves alone and in believing only in external causes. In one way or another we will always miss the mark if we do. Evil is not created by us or by others; it is born in this web that we have spun about us—and that is suffocating us. What sufficiently tough new men will be patient enough to really reweave it?

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the root of all the evil that is in the world

I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any field of science... This loosening of thinking seems to me to be the greatest blessing which modern science has given to us. For the belief in a single truth and in being the possessor thereof is the root cause of all evil in the world.

It is peculiar to "ressentiment criticism" that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.

it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.

Zar smo svi zli? — Svi. Neko manje, neko više. Ali svi.

Ljudi su zla djeca. Zla po ?inu,djeca po pameti. I nikada ne?e biti druga?iji.

Što ima više svetih skloništa iza kojih se ljudi kriju, sve je više prostora za ljudsko zlo. ?ovjek uvijek izmisli razlog izvan sebe, da bi se oslobodio odgovornosti i krivice.

Htio sam da ga pitam, zar do slobode da se do?e nasiljem? Zar se protiv zla mora upotrijebiti zlo? I ko ?e to drugo zlo iskorijeniti? I kako ga zaboraviti? Ali ako to kažem, zamrzi?e me, prezre?e me. Zadrža?u se na poeziji. Ali šta da kažem? I ovdje sam sam, i ovdje sam kriv, i ovdje razbijam zbijeni red, ?vrst kao zid.

Ljudi su zla djeca, zla po ?inu, djeca po pameti. I nikad ne?e biti druk?iji.

Više je dobrih ljudi na svijetu nego zlih. Mnogo više! Samo se zli dalje ?uju i teže osje?aju. Dobri ?ute.

Sve se izmijeni kad padne tama. Za grijeh nije ostavljeno jedno odre?eno doba, ali je njegovo prirodno vrijeme no? (sad spavaju pametna mala i tupava velika djeca, i oni što stignu da svrše zlo za dana). I uvijek kad se ne vidi.

Saznao sam, i osje?ao sam se kriv, da je život beskrajno raznovrstan i u zlu i u dobru.

Snakes have many forms, you know. They have not always been evil or poisonous - or at least, not only so. Just as desire has not always been evil. In ancient times, snakes were a symbol of healing. Of wisdom. They can be very beautiful.

Jesus from the moment he first appears in Galilee is a sign of contradiction, fomenting revolution through telling the truth about the state of the world, the reality of evil, and the eye of God, who judges in a different vein altogether than courts of law, whether they be religious canons, the ecclesiastical courts, or government legal systems.

A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!

God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!

On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost, but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!