Quotes About Evil

Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen." - Carter to Georgina

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.

A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.

The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.

Active evil is better than passive good

All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.

...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Good wins in the end because evil is a self-destructive, cannibalistic force that Inevitably engorges upon itself.

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.

Evil forges a tornado.But goodness battles in a straight line.

I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon

Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.