Evil Quotes

There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I’m the lesser evil already.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

It is fashionable in some quarters to say our ancestors were all evil. I reject that notion. I also reject the elitist worldview that these United States are anything but the greatest nation in the history of mankind.

Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven‘t read too many, and I can’t say I’m crazy about romantic vampires anyway – to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

It’s much more likely that an asteroid will strike the Earth and annihilate life as we know it than AI will turn evil.

I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people.

In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.

The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods.

Sometimes evil is in the form of a malignant clown, and sometimes evil is in the form of policy and legislators, and sometimes it’s a grinning death mask and it has something more viscerally terrifying about it.

A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Just because we’re rid of Saddam and the evil Batthists doesn’t mean the occupation is a good thing. Our salvation from Saddam was only with the grace of God.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

God made a mistake when he gave to humans, infected as they are with evil, jurisdiction over Earth. He should have given jurisdiction to animals.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

Yes, of course it’s fun to play evil, but it’s simply fun to play any different characters.

I am always loath to use the world ‘evil,’ but if ‘evil’ is the reverse of ‘live,’ Guy de Rothschild is thoroughly evil. He stands for the opposite of life.

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

Evil comes in many forms, and whether you are male or female, that doesn’t matter as much as what lurks in your mind.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man’s capacity for evil.

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

To me, a ‘brand‘ sounds evil.

When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim’s close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.