Quotes About Evil

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

In the forest of primeval A school for Good and Evil Twin towers like two heads One for the pure And one for the wicked Try to escape you'll always fail, The only way out is Through a fairytale.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?

God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.