Evil Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets.

— Joseph Brodsky

“[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything…

— Blaise Pascal

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

— James Tiptree Jr

Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“Evil can't be scientifically defined: it's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably been linked…

— Spencer Reid

Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends…

— Glen Cook

I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness…

— Ayn Rand

“The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions.”

— Pliny the Younger

“We humans can spend our whole lives pondering the meaning of ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ but we will never be able to figure it out.…

— Soko Morinaga

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

— Robert M. Pirsig

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

— Daniel Defoe