Evil Quotes

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Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is… — Simon Winchester
When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss.… — Michael Koryta
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity. — Richard Holbrooke
Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of… — Serge Schmemann
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you. — Donald Tusk
I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For… — Lara Stone
We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both… — Robert Winston
Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history. — Denis O'Hare
The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual. — James St. James
I do not believe it makes sense to say that nuclear weapons are inherently evil. In certain circumstances, they can play a positive role -… — Des Browne
In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence. — Philip Yancey
Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to… — Sam Harris
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is… — Michel Houellebecq
Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to… — Ellen G. White
The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around… — Samantha Power
Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to… — Naomi Benaron
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of… — Roger Rosenblatt
Get back here, Potter! I want to see your face when I kill you! I want to see the light leave your eyes! — Lord Voldemort
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals. — William Penn
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. — Buddha

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