Quotes About Evil

Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

All evil is good become cancerous.

Laugh hard at the absurdly evil.

I made a promise to my parents that I would rid the city of the evil that took their lives.

I MADE A PROMISE TO MY PARENTS TO PROTECT THIS CITY FROM THE EVIL THAT TOOK THEIR LIVES. IF I AM TO SUCCEED, I MUST BE WILLING TO DEAL OUT — THE PUNISHMENT.

This is the rhetoric of the Spirit of God' he said, 'to extenuate evil things, and to amplify good things: if a cross comes to make the cross but little, but if there is a mercy to make the mercy great.

All punishment in itself is evil.

Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

The definition of freedom is the infinite value of the human being. Everything that is evil teaches people that they have limited value.

When an authority is established amongst people, evil is either obvious to see or nearly impossible to see, depending entirely upon whether or not you are a part of its culture. Even though few people are able to recognize the oppression found in their own cultures, culture is still oppression.

Of justice you will find none.... To judge is evil. To mete justice, more appalling still. Act from compassion and you will do better than to devise any code or facade of justice.

When the Universe folds into a sigh, Withdrawing from all agony and grief, Time will cease its flowing, and with relief The cosmic Breath will freeze and Time will die. Evil souls that once were us arise To devour the corpse, like clouds of flies.

There are three truths I have come to learn in the year since the Dragon War. The first is that both humans and dragons have the capacity to be good or evil. The second is that even if you're doing something you love, you can still become bored with your work. And the third is that my business partner, Marta, will never be finished with her wedding gown. Either one of them.

Only when we prove that international law and the human rights of all mankind are greater than any villain can we vanquish evil.

when it comes to coping with evil, ignorance is our worst enemy.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

There are thousands of Himmlers living among us.

The pillars of human society are covetousness, fear, and corruption," retorted Grau. "Man is evil, but loves the good—when others do it.