Evil Quotes

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.
Alan Dean Foster

Today, Real, Before

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
Robert Hughes

Another, Literal, Conveyed

We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win.
Johnny Isakson

War, Win, Against

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.
Jennifer Beals

Yourself, Someone, Else

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
James Woods

Self, Sometimes, Nation

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Georges Bataille

Life, Good, Human

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Try, Seen, Sale

I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.
Jon Fishman

Life, Music, Positive

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling.
Jung Chang

Feeling, Human, Excitement

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. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway.
Michael Koryta

Time, Someone, Book

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.
Nicolas Malebranche

Change, Good, Men

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.
Jeff Ament

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.
Jonathan Krohn

Great, Him, Wrong

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.
Michael Chiklis

Good, Someone, Less

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
Van Wyck Brooks

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Life, Death, Why

I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.
Danny Huston

Love, Bad, Whole

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
Jared Harris

Character, Child, Sister

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
Orhan Pamuk

Done, Often, Simply

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
Harmon Killebrew

Power, Intentions, Guess

For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
Alice Sebold

Time, Thought, Again

I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
Adam Driver

Thought, Tv, Passed

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
Georg Trakl

Hard, Black, Stars

Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.
Trevor Rabin

Music, Business, Mean

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
Mary Garden

Spiritual, Children, Parents

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.
Bruce Campbell

Dead, Sequel, Supposed

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.
Charles Krauthammer

Life, Time, Bad

It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?
Lisa Gardner

Work, Women, Men

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.
Seth Gordon

Life, Philosophy, Different

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.
Janet Suzman

Democracy, Actually, Land

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