Quotes About Evil

When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.

In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.

CLYTEMNESTRA. Nay, peace, O best-belovèd! Peace! And let us work no evil more. Surely the reaping of the past is a full harvest, and not good, And wounds enough are everywhere.—Let us not stain ourselves with blood.

But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor.

And when he had put on the yoke-strap of compulsion, his spirit's wind veering to an impious blast, impure, unholy, from that moment his mind changed to a temper of utter ruthlessness. For mortals are made reckless by the evil counsels of merciless Infatuation, beginner of disaster.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

No gratitude from the wicked.

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.

The wicked always finds an excuse for wrongdoing.

Our model of evil ... is Satan, not because he does the wrong things, but because he induces others to do the wrong things by persuading them that evil is right.

Evil cannot be punished, but it is self-destructive.

All evil was created by God to block out spirituality from the world so that man would be forced to struggle for it and therefore appreciate it more deeply.

To be angered by evil is to partake of it, stupid. - Phrases of Import and Salvation, Chapter IX, The Book of Universal Truths and Other Humorous Anecdotes

With time, he developed the instincts of a priest: evil existed; the task was to work productively within its confines.

They had refused payment, their spying was an act of conscience. Sincere Christians, German Lutherans, they had watched with horror as the Nazis violated every precept sacred to them. .... They didn't care to be paid. They had prayed together for hours, they explained, down on their knees, trying to make this decision, but now it was made. The people who led Germany were evil, and they were obliged, by their faith, to act against them.

He'd grown up an untroubled believer, but the war had put an end to that. What God could permit such misery and slaughter? But, in time, he had found consolation in a God beyond understanding, and prayed for those he'd lost, for those he loved, and an end to evil in the world.

If the physical world were a novel, with the business of examining evil and good, it would not have the clear lines of Dickens but the shadowy ambiguities of Dostoevsky.

Soon there will be war. Millions will burn. Millions will perish in sickness and misery. Why does one death matter against so many? Because there is good and there is evil, and evil must be punished. Even in the face of Armageddon I shall not compromise in this. But there are so many deserving of retribution ... and there is so little time.

But I believe. I believe that once we were ruled by beings so evil that even their own shadows shied away from them.

What would you prefer? Sobbing? Wailing? Maybe some more silence? Regret never won a war, Valkyrie, and 'sorry' isn't a big enough word for what I'm feeling. I've spent my life since then trying to make up for it, but I'll never make up for it. The things I did were unspeakably evil, but for those few years, I didn't care.

Stephanie thought about the world she'd grown up in, and how different it was from the world she'd been introduced to, and yet how similar. There was joy and happiness in both, just as there was heartbreak and horror. There was good and evil and everything in between, and these qualities seemed to be shared equally in the worlds of the magical and the mundane. It was her life now. She couldn't imagine living without either one.

Nationality?" Valkyrie asked. Sleave laughed. "Don't you know? Irish, of course. The most evil people in the world are Irish.

Where I go, the ghosts go. I go where the evil is.