Evil famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden -
I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.
-- Christopher Golden -
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.
-- Christopher Paolini -
The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.
-- Christopher Paolini -
Byron says he won't go there. He give Kenny and Joey a story about "Wool Pooh," the supposed evil twin of Winnie-the-Pooh. They believe him, but Kenny still wants to go.
-- Christopher Paul Curtis -
Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.
-- Christopher Pike -
Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
-- Christopher Plummer -
I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.
-- Christopher Walken -
There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.
-- Christopher X. Brodeur -
The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.
-- Chuck D -
Find good in what the world says is evil.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
There's nothing nice about Steve Jobs and there's nothing evil about Bill Gates
-- Chuck Peddle -
What we are really lacking today is a real hatred of evil.
-- Chuck Smith -
We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.
-- Cintra Wilson -
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
-- Clara Barton -
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
-- Clarence Darrow -
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
-- Claudius -
Why are you wearing that negligee? Sure makes it hard to walk away.
-- Clay Walker -
She's just a devil woman With evil on her mind Beware the devil woman She's gonna get you She's just a devil woman With evil on her mind
-- Cliff Richard -
Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite
-- Clive Barker -
Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.
-- Clive Barker -
Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.
-- Colin McGinn -
I have so many evil plans, I'm just trying to find the one which would be best right now!
-- Colin Mochrie -
I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try to look after our fellow creatures, and evil for us to do otherwise.
-- Colin Tudge -
The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.
-- Colin Wilson -
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
-- Confucius -
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
-- Coretta Scott King -
That evil can never be great which is the last.
-- Cornelius Nepos -
Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
-- Cotton Mather -
Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
-- Coventry Patmore -
That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.
-- Craig Ferguson -
Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.
-- Craig Ferguson -
I'm always a bit shy around evil people...
-- Craig Ferguson -
In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.
-- Craig Reucassel -
There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names which make the problems sound like they’re taking place in a different world: they make people not care about other people dying of starvation by calling the place the dying live “the third world.
-- Craig Stone -
Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.
-- Criss Jami -
When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.
-- Criss Jami -
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
-- Cunningham Geikie -
Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go.
-- Curtis Mayfield -
Bridget adds, "Did Anyone bring a weapon?" "Confiscated," Zach admits for both of us. Vesper holds up her metal fingernail file. "They didn't take this." We're dealing with the forces of evil," I point out. "Not the TSA.
-- Cynthia Leitich Smith -
But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.
-- Cynthia Rylant -
It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.
-- Cyprian -
The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.
-- D. A. Carson -
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still
-- D. H. Lawrence -
You want to kill me, don't you? And here I thought you and your friends were so righteous. You are just as capable of evil as anyone. Perhaps more so. Yet you believe your brand of evil is justified, so long as it serves your own misguided purposes." --Saint Dane
-- D. J. MacHale -
Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.
-- Dagobert D. Runes -
Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.
-- Dalton Camp -
The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.
-- Dalton Trumbo -
Fear not of evil.. Everyday dem flesh it grow old Changes of the time take the toll.
-- Damian Marley -
A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.
-- Dan Gutman -
I’m saying there is evil in the world,†Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.
-- Daniel Abraham -
All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
-- Daniel Defoe -
Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about : ...
-- Daniel Defoe -
...in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into...
-- Daniel Defoe -
No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.
-- Daniel Defoe -
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
-- Daniel Defoe -
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!
-- Daniel Handler -
I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
-- Daniel Okrent -
One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution.
-- Daniel Pipes -
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
-- Daniel Webster -
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
-- Daniel Webster -
I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.
-- Danny Huston -
The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.
-- Dave Beard -
For God to forgive sinners without the full penalty being paid would contradict His justice and make Him our partner in evil. Christ fully paid that penalty for our sins--but the pardon must be willingly and gladly received. God will not force anyone into heaven.
-- Dave Hunt -
That's the shame about Miles Copeland; he's evil, but he's got a heart of gold.
-- Dave Wakeling -
There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.
-- David Benioff -
For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides us little evidence of anything other than a regal, relentless, and miraculous enmity; sin he forgives, suffering he heals, evil he casts out, and death he conquers. And absolutely nowhere does Christ act as if any of these things are part of the eternal work or purposes of God.
-- David Bentley Hart -
You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light.
-- David Clement-Davies -
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director's work after 'Jackie Brown,' the movie is pure sensation. It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness--it's too shallow to be called nihilism--undermines even the best scenes.
-- David Denby -
God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.
-- David F. Wells -
Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.
-- David F. Wells -
There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.
-- David Farland -
Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.
-- David Farland -
When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.
-- David Gemmell -
Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.
-- David Gemmell -
Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.
-- David Gemmell -
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.
-- David Graeber -
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
-- David Harsanyi -
Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by Joseph Stalin, Joseph McCarthy and Mao Tse Tung.
-- David James Duncan -
Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large.
-- David Letterman -
Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.
-- David Morrissey -
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
-- David Ogilvy -
I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
-- David Ogilvy -
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
-- David Sarnoff -
Anger is a divinely implanted emotion. Closely allied to our instinct for right, it is designed to be used for constructive spiritual purposes. The person who cannot feel anger at evil is a person who lacks enthusiasm for good. If you cannot hate wrong, it's very questionable whether you really love righteousness.
-- David Seamands -
Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, still, you couldn't look at him the same way again.
-- David Sedaris -
All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.
-- David Weber
