3,115 Quotes About Evil

Evil travels—like all energy, it transfers between people and objects; it moves, gets stored, moves again. But where did it originate? When Eve ate the apple? Or before that, with Satan, that fallen seraph who took the form of a snake and whispered with slithering tongue into her ear? Did she birth it or was it thrust upon us by some insufflating malefic serpent? Is it man-made or a supernatural force?

Technically, under the Golden Rule, you wouldn’t have to do anything for anybody and you would still be in the clear. But that merely stops the transference of evil with you. It’s just indifference. If the evil stopped with you, and there was no good to push it out, then that evil is still inside you.

The dark peregrinations of the mind are an essential part of understanding evil, and in turn understanding and doing and being good.

The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right.[Atticus Pūnd]

Wendigo snarled and threw a handful of gravel up at Nello that clattered musically against her chest plate, but he made no effort to stand. He closed his eyes then and lay there laughing like a man insane. “Mara's out there! Your daddy's gonna burn! You're all going to burn beneath the shadow of her wings!

A symbol of humanity obsessed with evil, lost in a cult whose emblem is literally a celebration of the moment it was brought into the world.

Google tracks their users even though their motto is ‘Don’t be evil.’

Most of the evil in this world is caused by people blindly following orders.

Blind obedience to a cause, a king, a country, a religion, is surely the root of all evil.