EVIL QUOTES VIII

quotations about evil

Evil is the canker of life.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk


The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

WALT DISNEY

Deeds Rather Than Words


I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass.

DEAN KOONTZ

Dark Rivers of the Heart


I believed in love, but I believed in evil too. Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Cerulean Sins


Evil eyes look out for occasion, therefore give none.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

Urith


All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines.

DEAN KOONTZ

Brother Odd


The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life


In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


As long as what you are afraid of is something evil, you may still hope that the good may come to your rescue. But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.

C.S. LEWIS

Perelandra


We return evil for evil, in which there is no sin, for it is necessary to pay a wicked man in his own coin.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya


It is not easy for some men to know they have done evil, for reasoning and honor are often clouded by pride.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Corrino


Evils draw men together.

ARISTOTLE

Rhetoric


As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as we would like to believe. Historical inquiry and behavioral science have demonstrated the "banality of evil" -- that is, under certain conditions and social pressures, ordinary people can commit acts that would otherwise be unthinkable.

PHILIP ZIMBARDO

"The Banality of Heroism", Greater Good, Sep. 1, 2006


Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

J. K. ROWLING

speech, Jun. 5, 2008


Evil's a word that gets tossed around a lot. Like "great". Or "awesome".

LOLA

"B.C.", Moonlight


Devil inside
The devil inside
Every single one of us
The devil inside

INXS

"Devil Inside"


You would not easily guess
All the modes of distress
Which torture the tenants of earth;
And the various evils,
Which like so many devils,
Attend the poor souls from their birth.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"Verses on a Cat"


When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

BIBLE

Proverbs 21:15