3,115 Quotes About Evil


  • Author Naomi Novik
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    She says it's too easy to call people evil instead of their choices and that lets people justify making evil choices. Because they convince themselves that it's okay because they're still good people overall inside their own heads. And yes, fine. But I think that after a certain number of evil choices, it's reasonable shorthand to decide that someone's an evil person who oughtn't have the chance to make any more choices. And the more power someone has, the less slack they ought to be given.

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  • Author Ruby Bridges
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    [G]ood and evil comes in all shades and colors... evil is not prejudiced.... evil just needs an opportunity to work through you.... All of us, no matter what we look like, we all have a common enemy, and that is evil. If we don't understand that and come together, then evil will win.

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  • Author Meša Selimović
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    Sve se izmijeni kad padne tama. Za grijeh nije ostavljeno jedno određeno doba, ali je njegovo prirodno vrijeme noć (sad spavaju pametna mala i tupava velika djeca, i oni što stignu da svrše zlo za dana). I uvijek kad se ne vidi.

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  • Author José Saramago
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    They were free to do whatever they like, to do evil, which everyone knows is the easiest thing to do.

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  • Author James Comey
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    Evil has an ordinary face. It laughs, it cries, it deflects, it rationalizes, it makes great pasta. These [Mafia] killers were people who had crossed an indelible line in human experience by intentionally taking another life. They all constructed their own narrative to explain and justify their own killing. None of them saw themselves as bad people. To a person, they all said the same thing: The first time was really, really hard. After that, not so much.

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  • Author Andrzej Sapkowski
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    In order to become a witcher, you have to be born in the shadow of destiny, and very few are born like that. That's why there are so few of us. We're growing old, dying, without anyone to pass our knowledge, our gifts, on to. We lack successors. And this world is full of Evil which waits for the day none of us are left.

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  • Author Joey Comeau
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    I believe most people are inherently good, but overcoming our nature is what separates us from the animals.

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