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Quotes About Evil

For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
~ John Milton
Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.
~ Lucinda Riley
It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.
~ Paulo Coelho
Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.
~ Octavio Paz
Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.
~ Orson Scott Card
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
~ Richard John Neuhaus
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
~ Samuel Butler
FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn't always prevail over evil.
~ Susane Colasanti
Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.
~ Sheri Holman, The Dress Lodger
A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.
~ Anne Rice
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
~ E.M. Forster
Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.
~ Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
~ Philip Zimbardo
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
This is a struggle between good and evil and we're the good?
~ Howard Dean
The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].
~ Abraham Lincoln
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
~ Amelia Barr
Its as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.
~ Brian Helgeland
It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.
~ Brigham Young
Weakness and corruption isn't in the world," Clary snapped. "It's in people. And it always will be. The world just needs good people to balance it out. And you're planning to kill them all.
~ Cassandra Clare
I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.
~ Chaim Potok
Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.
~ Christopher Meledandri
If you have a lair then you are probably not a good person.
~ Demetri Martin