Evil Quotes

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

~ Ayn Rand

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

~ Chester A. Arthur

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

~ Ray Comfort

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

~ Adam Rapp

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

~ Frederick William Robertson

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

~ George Whitefield

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.

~ Pope Francis

Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

~ Madchen Amick

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

~ Brian Lumley

I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His direct will, which is good and perfect with no evil in it.

~ T. B. Joshua

If money is the root of all evil, then China's manipulation of its currency, the yuan, is the tap root of everything wrong with the U.S.-China trade relationship.

~ Peter Navarro

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

~ Ted Dekker

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

~ Simon Wiesenthal

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

~ Pearl S. Buck

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

~ Bede Jarrett

It's that evil twin part of me that always comes out at the absolute wrong political moment, like a demon possessing my soul; it exhibits itself as an arrogance or disdain or obnoxiousness or meanness or anger or pettiness - all traits that are lethal in politics.

~ Peter Navarro

Of the seven deadly sins, anger has long been the one with the best box of costumes. When the guy in the next car rages at you, he's dangerous. When you rage at him, you're just. We can usually recognize the results of anger, especially in others, as destructive and evil.

~ Frederica Mathewes-Green

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

~ Joyce Cary

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

~ Jeff Bezos

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

~ Eric Hoffer

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

~ Abu Bakr

There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings.

~ Bill O'reilly

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.

~ Marina And The Diamonds