Evil Quotes

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

Rutherford B. Hayes, In Rutherfo

Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I mean, often what you're meeting is a very mediocre person. But nonetheless, you can get a sort of frisson of wickedness from them. And the best combination of those, I think, I describe him in the book, is/was General Jorge Rafael Videla of Argentina, who I met in the late 1970s when the death squad war was at its height, and his fellow citizens were disappearing off the street all the time. And he was, in some ways, extremely banal. I describe him as looking like a human toothbrush. He was a sort of starch, lean officer with a silly mustache, and a very stupid look to him, but a very fanatical glint as well. And, if I'd tell you why he's now under house arrest in Argentina, you might get a sense of the horror I felt as I was asking him questions about all this. He's in prison in Argentina for selling the children of the rape victims among the private prisoners, who he kept in a personal jail. And I don't know if I've ever met anyone who's done anything as sort of condensedly horrible as that.

Christopher Hitchens

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Jeremy P. Johnson

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Albert Schweitzer

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.

Terry Pratchett

Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty

Mahatma Gandhi

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hell is paved with good intentions.

Samuel Johnson

In hell, the Devil is God.

Kedar Joshi

It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.

Kedar Joshi

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

David Cronenberg

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

Voltaire

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Kathleen Raine

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Thomas Hood

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Plato

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Brian Masters

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Stephen King

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

Vance Havner