Evil Quotes

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Patrick Mcgoohan

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Joseph De Maistre

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Joseph De Maistre

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Baltasar Gracian

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Albert Einstein

God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata -of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they've got to be free.Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. (...) If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will -that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings- then we may take it it is worth paying.

C.S. Lewis

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

Neil Gaiman

Let guilty men remember, their black deedsDo lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

John Webster, The White Devil; (

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

Ransom perceived that he had never before seen anything but half-hearted and uneasy attempts at evil. This creature was whole-hearted. The extremity of its evil had passed beyond all struggle into some state which bore a horrible similarity to innocence.

C.S. Lewis

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Carl Gustav Jung

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Doug Horton

There is no bad in good.

Doug Horton

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Saul Bellow

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

W. Somerset Maugham

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Ben Jonson