3,115 Quotes About Evil

The canter is a cure for every evil.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.

The greater evil who is in-When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the painOr he who pays for the sin?

All that evil requires is an absence of virtue, where somebody didn't make a stand.

What is evil?' you ask. To which I reply, 'Who are you, Friedrich Nietzsche?' To which you respond, 'Duh, wha? Me no understand.'Then I put you back in your cage.

Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman’s tongue? What good was beauty — a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless — if it cloaked such a viperous soul?

But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.

The seeds of salvation are buried in every act of evil.

To make an action honorable, it ought to be agreeable to the age, and other circumstances of the person; since it is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.