Evil Quotes

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
James Monroe

Best, Government, Greatest

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
Matthew Fox

Racism, Healing, Light

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges

Others, Ethics, Whose

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Good, Done, Name

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Empty, Month, Endure

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
Herman Hesse

Time, Good, Real

What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard?
Tom Felton

Play, Old, Year

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza

Good, Men, Long

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Tony Blair

Friends, Here, American

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Time, History, Real

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
Dennis Prager

Good, Rich, Poor

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
Eric Butterworth

God, Thinking, Against

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.
Tim Burton

Kiss, Whether, Open

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Linus Torvalds

Systems, Microsoft, Crappy

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. Auden

Good, Cannot, Imagine

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Good, Power, Impossible

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Emile M. Cioran

Violence, Action, Himself

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
Ralph Steadman

Good, Game, Opinion

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker

Good, Hope, Live

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
T. E. Lawrence

May, Another, Heaven

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
John Philpot Curran

Good, Men, Nothing

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
Abu Bakr

Society, Solitude, Persons

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
Dean Koontz

Before, Full, Ways

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
Philip Zimbardo

Good, Between, Anyone

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy

Impossible, Far, Resolution

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Denis Diderot

Through, Genius, Turns

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.
Moses

Life, Good, Death

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.
Louis Farrakhan

Good, Brother, Sister

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
Algernon H. Blackwood

Beautiful, Place, Able

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
Bodhidharma

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