Evil Quotes
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
P. J. O'Rourke
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Saint Augustine
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...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
Garrison Keillor
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I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?
Marjane Satrapi
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Sam Mendes
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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Charles Dickens
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Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake
H. L. Mencken
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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
Ramana Maharshi
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I don't think quotas are necessarily an evil. I think when we look at industry in general back to the '60s and the '50s, the way more diverse people like my dad and mom's generation were able to break into industry was because of affirmation action, because of quotas.
Kimberly Bryant
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If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
Joel Kinnaman
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To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
D. B. Weiss
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Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
John Roy Anderson Yes
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
Taya Kyle
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
Oliver Ellsworth
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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
Aristotle
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Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.
Gautama Buddha
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
Taya Kyle
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Being evil is easy.
J. K. Simmons
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Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.
Vincent Van Gogh
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Socrates
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
Orhan Pamuk
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It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox