Quotes About Evil

But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?

Man's strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

How are we ever to disarm evil and abolish death as a means to an end? How are we ever to break the cycle of violence and rage? Can terror coexist with justice? Does murder call for murder, despair for revenge? Can hate engender anything but hate?

How are we ever to disarm evil and abolish death as a means to an end? How are we ever to break the cycle of violence and rage? Can terror coexist with justice? Does murder call for murder, despair for revenge? Can hate engender anything but hate? The

Armies and governments the world over have a definite technique for provoking hate. By speeches and films and other kinds of propaganda they create an image of the enemy in which he is the incarnation of evil, the symbol of suffering, the fountainhead of the cruelty and injustice of all times.

Indifference is the epitome of evil. / "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented

Or was it simply to preserve a record of the ordeal I endured as an adolescent, at an age when one's knowledge of death and evil should be limited to what one discovers in literature?

Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean, what if he had been a good man, instead?

She cleared her throat. "They discovered, to their eeeeever-last-ing horr-or"—here Mrs. Henscher's voice rose to such a shriek that Norman imagined fine crystal shattering halfway across the county—"an eeeeevil witch among them!" Now she began to wave her arms

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is.

Those who follow evil gods become evil themselves

I know that the delight in battle, what we soldiers think of as courage, is not essential, even to a soldier. I need not call up anger any more—and the anger I called, in Kolobia, opened the way for Achrya's evil. I know that I can, if I but ask the gods, know what is right, and do it.

Of death I am as certain as any mortal, Ammerlin, but defeat is certain only in despair. And I have been well taught that in the worst of times despair is still the work of evil.

the spirit of an evil man who tried to take your body Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but you say fire?" "It felt like fire," Stammel said. His throat

Cousin John reads Tolkien. No man who does that can be wholly evil.

Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil.

for there is nothing more desolate in all the abodes of men than an unfurnished house dimly lit, silent, and forsaken, and yet tenanted by rumour with the memories of evil and violent histories.

A virtuous person is better then virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.

A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.

I am a wind of energy, I am evil, but I can't stop and so I rush along, seeking gratification. I won't stop. I don't want to.

Jung achava que a religião com demasiada frequência acentua o bem com a negação do mal. O mal não desaparece, apenas mergulha no inconsciente para ser projetado em outras pessoas.

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

Slechte man, slechte daemon. Je hebt eerder tegen ze gevochten. Je moet weer tegen ze vechten. - Matilda