Evil Quotes · Page 29

In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through,…

— Veronica Roth

“But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad person'?…

— Natsume Sōseki

The human race has reached a turning point. Man has opened the secrets of nature and mastered new powers. If he uses…

— Harry S. Truman

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

— August Strindberg

There are guys who thrive completely on the action in the ring and see the promotion as a necessary evil, whereas I…

— Mick Foley

I loved you because I thought you loved me. I was wrong, you loved someone else. After all things I have done…

— Zuhair Tahan

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert…

— Basil Hume

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

— McGeorge Bundy

“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour,…

— Johann Joachim Becher

The Democrats are evil, and they crave power. They're willing to destroy any decent man or woman to attain it.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.

— Henry Rollins

The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to…

— Hilaire Belloc

One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early…

— Noam Chomsky

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the…

— Hannah Arendt

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind,…

— Gautama Buddha

Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be…

— Max Born

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like…

— Jonathan Swift

I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in…

— Peter Beinart

Only a madman would give good for evil

— Euripides

There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last couple of hours....…

— Tony Blair

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'

— Stuart Appleby

. . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works…

— Vincent de Paul