Evil Quotes

• Most of my favorite fictional couples are distinctly different. Light and dark, good and evil, boring and wild... whatever! They're more fun to experience and definitely more fun to write. You have all these levels, and you know they're not going to react to situations the same way.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Good
  • Different
  • Experience

• Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • People
  • Real
  • Evil

• Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Evil
  • Door
  • Open

• Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.

  

  Klas Pontus Arnoldson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Nature

• I do not believe it makes sense to say that nuclear weapons are inherently evil. In certain circumstances, they can play a positive role - as they have in the past. But clearly they have a power to do great harm.

  

  Des Browne
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Power

• The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Men
  • Done
  • Evil

• According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.

  

  Yajnavalkya
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Believe
  • Rewards

• But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Day
  • Evil
  • Fight

• He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reality

• Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Good
  • Evil

• Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

  

  Pope Francis
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I just have two cats. They're both pound kitties. One of them, Dick, is an evil, foot-biting cat. When I write a tiger morph, I'm always imagining Dick.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Live
  • High
  • Building

• What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Men
  • Eyes

• Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Help
  • Understanding
  • Darkness

• A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Security
  • Protect
  • Great Nation

• When I was a punk teenager, I rebelled because lots of people in Iceland think that foreigners are evil and that if you don't wear woolen hats and eat sheep, you're betraying your heritage.

  

  Bjork
  • People
  • Evil
  • Teenager

• The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

  

  Plato
  • Wealth
  • Citizens
  • Propose

• The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

  

  Plutarch
  • Evil
  • Suffer
  • Hear

• We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

  

  Larry Page
  • Think
  • Best
  • Evil

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Truth

• In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring.

  

  James Stephens
  • Die
  • Fall
  • Humanity

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