Evil Quotes · Page 117

“The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?”

— Anonymous

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

— Thomas Jefferson

Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

— Ralph Fiennes

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

— Lyn Nofziger

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

— Pope Francis

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

— Franz Kafka

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

— Ralph Fiennes

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it…

— William Penn

“Ragna hesitated. She had known this moment would come. “My Lady, your son Alberon is the father of our child and he…

— Robert Reid

Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is…

— Anonymous

“He was evil. Cruel, capricious, and dangerous as a cobra. A prince of darkness. Completely evil, and completely in love with her.”

— L.J. Smith

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions…

— Anonymous

...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

— Arno Gruen

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

— William Shakespeare

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind,…

— Anonymous

Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but,…

— Joseph Hall

“The evil heart which still remaineth in the Christian, doth always, when it is not attacking or obstructing, still reign and dwell…

— Charles h. spurgeon

“It contained a sad, but too common story of the hard-heartedness of the wealthy, and the misery endured by the children of…

— Mary Shelley

Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes…

— Gautama Buddha

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it can't ever…

— Mercedes Lackey

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…

— Marjane Satrapi

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of…

— Jane Austen

“The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.”

— Terry Pratchett

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

— Ayn Rand

“A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.”

— Orrin Woodward

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

— Anonymous

Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.

— Homer

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

— Walter Scott

Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places

— Anonymous

The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.

— Alan Cohen

California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils.

— Jon Stewart

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring.

— John Oliver

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil."

— Nat Hentoff

Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.

— Bob Dylan

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

— Soren Kierkegaard

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

— Mahatma Gandhi