Evil Quotes

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

~ Plato

Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

~ Anthony Bourdain

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

~ Lucretius

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

~ Dennis Prager

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.

~ Michelle Malkin

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

~ Yann Martel

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

~ Saint Ambrose

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

~ Mary Garden

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

~ Susan B. Anthony

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

~ Thomas Paine

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

~ Gary Ackerman

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

~ James Monroe

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

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

~ Scott Alexander

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

~ Pope Francis

I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

~ John Bradshaw

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

~ Albert Camus

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

~ Hannah Arendt

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

~ Bhumibol Adulyadej

The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.

~ William Shakespeare

If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.

~ Joel Kinnaman

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

~ Origen

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

~ Max Weber

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

~ Dennis Prager

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

~ Buddha

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

~ George Orwell

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

~ Jean Paul

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he's usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don't know what to think of it.

~ Pusha T

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

~ Unknown

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

~ Plutarch

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

~ Francis Bacon

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

~ Horace Mann