Evil Quotes

• The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Believe
  • Evil
  • Hero

• I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Evil
  • Able
  • Canvas

• Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Fields

• Evil perpetually tends to disappear.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Evil
  • Disappear

• How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Stupid

• Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.

  

  Eric Massa
  • Mother
  • Son
  • Vote

• No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Devil

• Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.

  

  James Boswell
  • World
  • Nature
  • Human

• The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Evil
  • Ignorance
  • Malevolence

• Crowdfunding companies like GoFundMe are in themselves not evil. But the fact that we have to rely on them to pay for our basics is.

  

  Alissa Quart
  • Evil
  • Companies
  • GoFundMe

• No evil lost is wailed when it is gone.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lost
  • Trouble
  • Gone

• If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Sin
  • Weakness

• I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

  

  George Arnold
  • Done
  • Earth
  • Violence

• Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

  

  David Farland
  • Evil
  • Stronger
  • Morality

• I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Love
  • Home
  • Joy

• I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

  

  Alex Colville
  • Evil
  • Animal
  • Thing

• Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

  

  John Calvin
  • Life
  • Lord
  • Fellowship

• It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Business
  • Mistake
  • inspirational

• I know there's a lot of emotion going into a fight, but everything in a fight - none of it comes out of an evil heart.

  

  Holly Holm
  • Heart
  • Fight
  • Everything

• I like 'Reanimator,' and I like 'Evil Dead 2.' But I really like the Corman movies from the late '60s and early '70s, and my favorite is 'The Mask of Red Death' with Vincent Price because - spoiler alert - but at the end of the movie, Vincent Price, he's the evil prince, and to kill him, his court just, like, dances at him.

  

  Owen King
  • Movie
  • Death
  • Red

• I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • People
  • Writing
  • Humans

• All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Cold
  • Poor
  • Circumstances

• Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Past
  • Memories
  • Concern

• It's so easy to say "evil Nazi monsters," but as soon as we do that, we take away the fact that it was individuals committing individual acts of murder. They had children, and what does that do? As soon as you generalize, they become monsters. It doesn't allow you to understand it in any kind of sophisticated way.

  

  Cate Shortland
  • Children
  • Kind
  • Individual

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