Evil famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
-- Alexander Pope -
Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'
-- Alexander Schmemann -
Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.
-- Alexander Smith -
The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.
-- Alexander Zinoviev -
They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils -
everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
-- Alfred de Vigny -
God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.
-- Alfred Edersheim -
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
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 Blackwood -
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Every day is a miracle. No matter how bad my circumstances, I have the freedom to choose my attitude to life, even to find joy. Evil is not new. It is up to us how we deal with both good and bad. No one can take this power away from us.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it is true that we are daily producing more evil and, with it, an ocean of suffering for millions that is absolutely avoidable. When one day the ignorance arising from childhood repression is eliminated and humanity has awakened, an end can be put to this production of evil.
-- Alice Miller -
I do utterly despise dailiness as it stands. I can't abide what the world has become, the frozen-ness of our product this evil thing that we kiss the ***** of every hour. I want a dailiness that is free and beautiful
-- Alice Notley -
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 isnt about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
-- Alice Sebold -
The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
-- Alice Walker -
We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.
-- Alison Croggon -
It is also important to understand that a hidden nature is not always an evil nature
-- Alison Goodman -
The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.
-- Allyson Schwartz -
People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.
-- Aloe Blacc -
Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
-- Alphonse Karr -
True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That's called dressing, and that's not evil - stuffing is, though.
-- Alton Brown -
Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.
-- Alton Brown -
I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.
-- Alva Myrdal -
Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.
-- Alveda King -
Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.
-- Ambrose -
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
-- Ambrose -
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
-- Ambrose Bierce -
To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real evil. Good is far less convincing than evil, but it’s because their chemical structures are different. Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesn’t seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen.
-- Amelie Nothomb -
& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
-- Amiri Baraka -
The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.
-- Amish Tripathi -
The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?
-- Amish Tripathi -
It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.
-- Amish Tripathi -
Lord Manu had said it's not people who are evil. True evil exists beyond them. It attracts people. It causes confusion amongst its enemies. But Evil in itself is too big to be confined to to just a few.
-- Amish Tripathi -
What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.
-- Amish Tripathi -
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.
-- Amit Abraham -
Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.
-- Amit Abraham -
A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.
-- Amy Carter -
If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?
-- Amy Tan -
we cannot cure the evils of politics with politics ...
-- Anais Nin -
I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.
-- Anais Nin -
I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me
-- Anais Nin -
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
-- Anatole France -
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
-- Anatole France -
There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.
-- Anchee Min -
Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.
-- Andrea Barrett -
We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved. They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
-- Andrea Yates -
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
-- Andrei Codrescu -
In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted in the direst evils both to religion and to science, and invariably; and, on the other hand, all untrammelled scientific investigation, no matter how dangerous to religion some of its stages may have seemed for the time to be, has invariably resulted in the highest good both of religion and of science.
-- Andrew Dickson White -
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
-- Andrew Jackson -
Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.
-- Andrew Vachss -
Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.
-- Andrzej Sapkowski -
I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did not occur to me -- I had no notion of this terrorist network that existed. I knew the were a lot of people in the world who didn't like us, but I had no idea that it was as well organized as it apparently is. That's one of the amazing facets of this terrible event: how well they did it. Incredible. The competence of these evil people.
-- Andy Rooney -
Has anybody ever told you you're an evil woman?" -Reece "Who, me?" -Erin "Yes, you." -Reece "Li'l ole me?" -Erin "Sadistic goddess you, yes." -Reece "Do you want me to stop?" -Erin "Do you want me to hold you down and bang you like a screen door?" -Reece "Don't threaten the sadistic goddess, Reece." -Erin
-- Angela Knight -
We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.
-- Angelina Jolie -
The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.
-- Angelina Jolie -
Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from the Pope to not fear the truth, even when it is painful, to not hide it or cover it up. However, this does not mean enduring strategies to discredit (the Church) in general...It is appropriate, then, that we all return to calling things by their names at all times, to identify evil in all of its gravity and in the multiplicity of its manifestations.
-- Angelo Bagnasco -
Oh dear," said Sarah anxiously, "I do wish he wouldn't do these silly things." I'm sure we all wish that, Sarah," said Marcia sternly. "But unfortunately he has progressed rather further than the silly stage. Evil-minded-scheming stage is more what I would call it.
-- Angie Sage -
We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.
-- Ani DiFranco -
It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.
-- Ann M. Martin -
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson -
We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.
-- Anne Bishop -
There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
Mass badly celebrated is an enormous evil. Ah! it is not a matter of indifference how it is said! . . . I have had a great vision on the mystery of Holy Mass and I have seen that whatever good has existed since creation is owing to it.
-- Anne Catherine Emmerich -
I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
-- Anne Enright -
I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin.
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
-- Anne Rice -
And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.
-- Anne Rice -
Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.
-- Anne Rice -
A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.
-- Anne Rice -
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
-- Annie Besant -
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.
-- Annie Besant -
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
-- Anthony Burgess -
Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
-- Anthony Burgess -
It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.
-- Anthony Burgess -
Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
-- Anthony Burgess -
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
-- Anthony Collins -
Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" "Is that including, or not including you?
-- Anthony Horowitz -
Seek refuge in Mary because she is the city of refuge. We know that Moses set up three cities of refuge for anyone who inadvertently killed his neighbor. Now the Lord has established a refuge of mercy, Mary, even for those who deliberately commit evil. Mary provides shelter and strength for the sinner.
-- Anthony of Padua -
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.
-- Antisthenes -
Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil.
-- Antoine Destutt de Tracy
