Evil Quotes
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And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.
Charles Dickens
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God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
John Maynard Keynes
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The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.
Isaac Watts
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I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.
Nan Goldin
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed we must bear the present evils and fortitude
George Washington
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I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.
Gavin McInnes
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It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.
Simon Conway Morris
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal
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Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.
Randy Alcorn
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When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.
Franz Kafka
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All stories boil down to good vs. evil, and that's what the archetypal American Western was.
W. Earl Brown
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Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.
William Emerson Arnett
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Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.
Flannery O'Connor
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Even people that are evil believe what they're doing is good. I don't agree with those people, but it's about understanding that there are those kinds of points of view.
Masi Oka
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Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories.
Paul Bloom
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Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.
Philip Zimbardo
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This sacrifice, which saved his life, reminded him again that the evil of this world could be put to rout by the will of a single human being.
Andreï Makine
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Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.
Corrie Ten Boom
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I still hate the Eagles…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.
William P. Young
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
Alexandre Dumas
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Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?
Sarah Vowell