Evil famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
-- Edward Abbey -
There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.
-- Edward Dahlberg -
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
-- Edward Dahlberg -
Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.
-- Edward Dahlberg -
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.
-- Edward Gibbon -
Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil
-- Edward Joseph Young -
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
-- Edward McKendree Bounds -
I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for reflection or for the discharge of any other then the most immediate and pressing concerns.
-- Edward Rutledge -
I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.
-- Edward Snowden -
I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.
-- Edward Teller -
All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!
-- Elbert Hubbard -
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
-- Elbridge Gerry -
It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.
-- Eleanor Farjeon -
Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.
-- Eleanor Farjeon -
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils.
-- Eleftherios Venizelos -
I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.
-- Eli Wallach -
Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?
-- Elie Wiesel -
But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?
-- Elie Wiesel -
What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.
-- Eliphas Levi -
For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.
-- Elise M. Boulding -
It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.
-- Elizabeth Blackwell -
Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that county alone....There must be a remedy for such a crying evil as this.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
-- Elizabeth Gaskell -
Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.
-- Elizabeth Goudge -
Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick -
When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.
-- Elizabeth Hurley -
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
-- Elizabeth Kostova -
What's devil to some is good to some others.
-- Elizabeth Madox Roberts -
Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are defective members, that there are tares amid the wheat. . . . Although there are evils existing in the church, and will be until the end of the world, the church in these last days is to be the light of the world that is polluted and demoralized by sin. The church, enfeebled and defective, needing to be reproved, warned, and counseled, is the only object upon earth upon which Christ bestows His supreme regard.
-- Ellen G. White -
When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?
-- Ellen Glasgow -
I vote because even the lesser of two evils is the lesser of two evils.
-- Ellen Goodman -
I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.
-- Ellen Key -
You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.
-- Ellen Page -
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
-- Ellis Peters -
All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.
-- Ellis Peters -
I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.
-- Elvis Costello -
She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.
-- Elvis Costello -
You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.
-- Elvis Presley -
In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.
-- Emil Fackenheim -
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
-- Emile Zola -
Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil
-- Eminem -
I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.
-- Eminem -
Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people
-- Eminem -
I do not believe in a mixture of good and evil in the world, or in myself. All is Good.
-- Emma Curtis Hopkins -
The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions of human beings hangs upon its solution; its agitation revives the fiercest passions for good and for evil that inflame the human breast.
-- Emma Lazarus -
The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye
-- Emmanuel Jal -
To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.
-- Emmet Fox -
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
-- Emo Philips -
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
-- Enoch Powell -
Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.
-- Ephrem the Syrian -
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
-- Epictetus -
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
-- Epictetus -
Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.
-- Epicurus -
Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.
-- Eric Ambler -
Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.
-- Eric Burdon -
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Fast food is both evil and genius. Because of it we can feed a large number of people fairly decently at an affordable price. However, all the artificial flavors and artificial ingredients in some of their products are unacceptable. And it's designed so you can eat fast so you get back to work more quickly. Not good.
-- Eric Ripert -
There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.
-- Eric Schmidt -
Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
-- Erica Jong -
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
-- Erich Fromm -
His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.
-- Erik Larson -
The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.
-- Erik Naggum -
People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.
-- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn -
Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil.
-- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn -
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.
-- Ernest Becker -
Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.
-- Ernest Becker -
Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.
-- Ernest Bramah -
I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy.
-- Ernest Cline -
In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.
-- Ernest Cline -
You’re evil, you know that?†I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.
-- Ernest Cline -
Being against evil doesn't make you good.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.
-- Ernestine Rose -
If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer -
And I believe that I will never be able to hate any human being for his so-called 'wickedness,' that I shall only hate the evil that is within me, though hate is perhaps putting it too strongly even then. In any case, we cannot be lax enough in what we demand of others and strict enough in what we demand of ourselves.
-- Etty Hillesum -
We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.
-- Etty Hillesum -
As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing...
-- Eugene Delacroix -
Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?
-- Eugenio Maria de Hostos -
Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.
-- Euripides -
Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.
-- Euripides -
Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words No undue credence: for I say that kings Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those Who live calm pious lives day after day All divinity Is built-up from our good and evil luck.
-- Euripides -
Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.
-- Euripides -
Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.
-- Euripides -
I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.
-- Evan Mandery
