Top evil Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of evil quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Aeschylus
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
- Aeschylus
Collection: Evil
Image of David Ricardo
Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.
- David Ricardo
Collection: Evil
Image of Nikolas Schreck
...What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.
- Nikolas Schreck
Collection: Evil
Image of Rafael Sabatini
In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.
- Rafael Sabatini
Collection: Evil
Image of H. P. Blavatsky
Never allow any unnecessary or vain thought to occupy your mind. This is more easily said than done. You cannot make your mind a blank all at once. So in the beginning try to prevent evil or idle thoughts by occupying your mind with the analysis of your own faults, or the contemplation of the Perfect Ones.
- H. P. Blavatsky
Collection: Evil
Image of Pope John Paul II
There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us.
- Pope John Paul II
Collection: Evil
Image of Josef Pieper
Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.
- Josef Pieper
Collection: Evil
Image of Benjamin Tucker
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
- Benjamin Tucker
Collection: Evil
Image of Masaru Emoto
While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.
- Masaru Emoto
Collection: Evil
Image of Chris d'Lacey
You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
- Chris d'Lacey
Collection: Evil
Image of John Wycliffe
I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.
- John Wycliffe
Collection: Evil
Image of Matt Taibbi
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.
- Matt Taibbi
Collection: Evil
Image of Stephen R. Lawhead
To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.
- Stephen R. Lawhead
Collection: Evil
Image of Christopher Golden
I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.
- Christopher Golden
Collection: Evil
Image of Busta Rhymes
Got demons on both shoulders.
- Busta Rhymes
Collection: Evil
Image of Czeslaw Milosz
Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.
- Czeslaw Milosz
Collection: Evil
Image of Gregory Maguire
It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.
- Gregory Maguire
Collection: Evil
Image of Thomas Kyd
Evil news fly faster still than good.
- Thomas Kyd
Collection: Evil
Image of Amish Tripathi
It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.
- Amish Tripathi
Collection: Evil
Image of Amish Tripathi
What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.
- Amish Tripathi
Collection: Evil
Image of William Kent Krueger
Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best.
- William Kent Krueger
Collection: Evil
Image of Philip Pullman
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.
- Philip Pullman
Collection: Evil
Image of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Collection: Evil
Image of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By doing good we become good.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Collection: Evil
Image of Harry Bridges
I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.
- Harry Bridges
Collection: Evil
Image of Wei Wu Wei
All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.
- Wei Wu Wei
Collection: Evil
Image of John Brunner
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
- John Brunner
Collection: Evil
Image of Daniel Abraham
I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.
- Daniel Abraham
Collection: Evil
Image of N.D. Wilson
Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.
- N.D. Wilson
Collection: Evil
Image of Vernor Vinge
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
- Vernor Vinge
Collection: Evil
Image of Keith Urban
From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.
- Keith Urban
Collection: Evil
Image of Enoch Powell
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
- Enoch Powell
Collection: Evil
Image of William Peter Blatty
Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.
- William Peter Blatty
Collection: Evil
Image of Sam Shepard
I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.
- Sam Shepard
Collection: Evil
Image of Kirsten Miller
This is April," he said, holding up the chicken. "She's the only friend I have left. I saved her from an evil chef at Tavern on the Green, and we've pledged eternal friendship.
- Kirsten Miller
Collection: Evil
Image of John Bartholomew Gough
The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.
- John Bartholomew Gough
Collection: Evil
Image of Robert Baer
It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.
- Robert Baer
Collection: Evil
Image of Guru Nanak
Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.
- Guru Nanak
Collection: Evil
Image of Patricia Velasquez
I also feel that if you were evil, then next time around you would be very good.
- Patricia Velasquez
Collection: Evil
Image of Hillary Jordan
There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.
- Hillary Jordan
Collection: Evil
Image of Kate Constable
It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.
- Kate Constable
Collection: Evil
Image of Daniel Pinkwater
I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.
- Daniel Pinkwater
Collection: Evil
Image of Dennis Prager
Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.
- Dennis Prager
Collection: Evil
Image of Sun Myung Moon
Up until today evil has lured goodness into evil, but goodness has not been able to lure evil into goodness. This may be the reason why up to today Christianity has not been able to boldly fulfill the Will of God.
- Sun Myung Moon
Collection: Evil
Image of Joyce Carol Oates
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Collection: Evil
Image of Walter Raleigh
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.
- Walter Raleigh
Collection: Evil
Image of Alison Goodman
It is also important to understand that a hidden nature is not always an evil nature
- Alison Goodman
Collection: Evil
Image of Tsugumi Ohba
No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
- Tsugumi Ohba
Collection: Evil
Image of Jeremy Bentham
As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.
- Jeremy Bentham
Collection: Evil