Evil Quotes

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

E.A. Bucchianeri

Why should the devil have all the good tunes?

Rowland Hill

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

Terry Eagleton

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience

Mark Twain

Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.Even now I curse the day and yet, I think,Few come within the compass of my curse, Wherein I did not some notorious ill,As kill a man, or else devise his death,Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,Set deadly enmity between two friends,Make poor men's cattle break their necks;Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,And bid the owners quench them with their tears.Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful thingsAs willingly as one would kill a fly,And nothing grieves me heartily indeedBut that I cannot do ten thousand more.

William Shakespeare

I am the spirit that negates.And rightly so, for all that comes to beDeserves to perish wretchedly;'Twere better nothing would begin.Thus everything that that your terms, sin,Destruction, evil represent That is my proper element.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

Henry David Thoreau

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all

Albert Camus

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

Terry Pratchett

Desire acts as a honey trap to the unwary male, luring him into unworthy and catastrophic enterprises. The beauty of the Narnian witches isn't ancillary to their evil, but integral to it, one of the weapons in their arsenal. Evil must, after all, appear attractive if it's going to be tempting, and from there it's only a small step further to the conclusion that feminine beauty is inherently wicked.

Laura Miller

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?

Richard Dawkins

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell

Oscar Wilde

The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.

Terry Pratchett

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Mahatma Gandhi

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Paulo Coelho

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

Paulo Coelho

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

John Donne

Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!

Marquis de Sade

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley