Top 1200 Evil Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about them, so you know what the opposite is.

We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.

A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.

Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.

If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.

As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.

. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

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

If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.

I try to ignore the Internet. It's an evil, evil place.

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.

Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.

The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'

I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something.