Evil Quotes

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

~ Keith Ablow

Goodness was not a trait you acquired, it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

~ Julius Lester

If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also...but of course if you were able to stand soberly after the first slap.

~ Toba Beta

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

~ Jane Austen

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.'That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

~ Keith Ablow

True evil is always petty and often incompetent.

~ Claire Chilton

Jesus Christ.” The fury on Nick’s face was enough to send me reeling and he hit the table hard enough with his hand that it made the plates and the silverware on the table bounce and clatter. “You give me the names and approximate location of those men who gave you that ultimatum and I’ll kill every goddamned one of them.”I sighed before I said quietly. “I already did.

~ Cheyenne Mccray

It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

~ Gregory Maguire

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

~ Sophocles

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. Virtue and vice were warp and woof of our first consciousness, and they will be the fabric of our last, and this despite any changes we may impose on field and river and mountain, on economy and manners. there is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?

~ John Steinbeck

In thy foul throat thou liest.

~ William Shakespeare

Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

~ Lisa Unger

Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.

~ Saul Bellow

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

~ Henryk Sienkiewicz

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.

~ Iain Pears

It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

~ Paulo Coelho

The canter is a cure for every evil.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource of those who are not blind and know themselves to be vicious.' Thus was I confirmed in habits of hypocrisy; and these, for a time, worked only too effectually to my advantage.

~ William Beckford

Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.

~ Edward Abbey

What is evil?' you ask. To which I reply, 'Who are you, Friedrich Nietzsche?' To which you respond, 'Duh, wha? Me no understand.'Then I put you back in your cage.

~ Josh Lieb

All that evil requires is an absence of virtue, where somebody didn't make a stand.

~ Terry Darlington

What is evil? asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. A web we men weave. Ged answered.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.

~ Orson Scott Card

O, lack and doubt and fear can only comeBecause of plenty, confidence, and love!They are the shadow-forms about their feet,Because they are not perfect crystal-clearTo the all-searching sun in which they live.Dread of its loss is Beauty’s certain seal!

~ George Macdonald

The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.

~ Jonathan Edwards

How shall a man judge what to do in such times?''As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear...It is a man's part to discern them, as much in th Golden Wood as in his own house.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Evil is relatively rare, ignorance is epidemic.

~ Jon Stewart

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion.

~ Douglas Preston

Don't let me get into your head. I will twist it and alter it until even you won't recognize yourself. You cannot begin to comprehend the power I possess. I can harm you in any way impossible.

~ Troy Bisson

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

~ Iain Pears

The seeds of salvation are buried in every act of evil.

~ Shūsaku Endō

It is very seldom that one encounters what would appear to be sheer unadulterated evil in a human face; an evil, I mean, active, deliberate, deadly, dangerous. Folly, heedlessness, vanity, pride, craft, meanness, stupidity - yes. But even Iagos in this world are few, and devilry is as rare as witchcraft. (Bad Company)

~ Walter De La Mare

I believe in the devil, in the Powers of Darkness, Lawford, as firmly as I believe he and they are powerless – in the long run. They – what shall we say? - have surrendered their intrinsicality. You can just go through evil, as you can go through a sewer, and come out on the other side. A loathsome process too.

~ Walter De La Mare

Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.

~ Victor Hugo

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

~ Bret Easton Ellis

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

There is evil! It's actual, like cement.I can't believe it. I can't stand it.Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.

~ Philip K. Dick

You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light.

~ David Clement-Davies

Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.

~ Ridley Pearson