Evil Quotes

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

~ Michel Houellebecq

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

~ Matthew Scully

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…

~ Jim Morrison

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

~ Jasper Fforde

My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?...

~ Brent Weeks

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business con

~ C.s. Lewis

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

~ Ayn Rand

All evil is good become cancerous.

~ Isaac Asimov

The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.

~ Jim Butcher

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

~ Neil Gaiman

Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!

~ Jim Butcher

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils, it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

~ Azar Nafisi

Ms. Sophia was evil bananas.

~ Lauren Kate

You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.

~ Jim Butcher

He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad.

~ James Dashner

The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

~ Khaled Hosseini

If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

~ Rebecca Manley Pippert

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

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

~ Haruki Murakami

Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggle every day to keep it under control. Others are corrupt to the core and don’t give a damn, as long as they don’t get caught. But evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.

~ Karen Marie Moning

Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.

~ Tess Gerritsen

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

~ Alan Moore

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

His voice was low, and I think he would've been hot if he weren't radiating that air of I Am Super Evil--No, Really--And Not In The Sexy Way.

~ Rachel Hawkins

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.

~ Gregory Maguire

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

~ Anne Rice

Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.

~ Ted Dekker

Hate is the father of all evil.

~ David Gemmell

I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise! - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

~ D.j. Machale

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some see an innocent victim. Others will see evil incarnate getting exactly what's deserved.

~ Emily Thorne

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.

~ John Connolly

Evil must always be fought.

~ Patricia Briggs

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

There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead.

~ Arthur Machen

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

~ Lloyd Alexander

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the midday sun, and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet. The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

~ Matthew Woodring Stover

I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn't read.

~ Nicole Peeler

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Eph. 6:12 (NIV)

~ Anonymous