Quotes About Evil

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

Nora had the face of all people who love the people – a face that would be evil when she found out that to love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Nora had the face of all people who love the people – a face that would be evil when she found out that to love without criticism is to be betrayed. Nora robbed herself for everyone; incapable of giving herself warning, she was continually turning about to find herself diminished. Wandering people the world over found her profitable in that she could be sold for a price forever, for she carried her betrayal money in her own pocket.

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

Nije li, ipak, ljudska glupost mati svakog zla na ovom svetu?

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

When the devil comes, he comes on angel's wings.

Satan can only tempt you with what you already have.

He recalls an old dicho— When the devil comes, he comes on angel's wings.

This is Tío's genius—he knows that a man who would never have the weakness to set a great evil into motion doesn't have the strength to stop it once it's moving. That the hardest thing in the world isn't to refrain from committing an evil, it's to stand up and stop one.

Evil is nothing more than that, which was once divine, and has fallen into shit." Indrid Night - Through A Glass Darkly.

Two days in a row with morning appointments! What kind of evil cloud was he under here, all of a sudden?

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.

Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.