Evil Quotes

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow.

Harold Lindsell

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Simone Weil

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Francis Quarles

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb

Speak of the Devil and he appears.

Italian Proverb

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.

Kahlil Gibran

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Francis Beaumont

The devil is the author of confusion.

Robert Burton

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

William S. Burroughs

What nearly everybody in my life

Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Ro

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

It is safest to be moderately base -- to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Sydney Smith

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

Terry Pratchett

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Isak Dinesen

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Stephen King

Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead down into the darkness inside the earth. Before crossing the bridge, each person had to place all his virtues in his right hand and all his sins in his left, and the imbalance between the two meant that the person always fell towards the side to which his actions on Earth had inclined him.

Paulo Coelho

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

Mahatma Gandhi