3,115 Quotes About Evil

It is an old and bitter experience of the human race that when once a gulf-stream of a particular evil has got started, it is always being whipped forward by some new little breeze, or enlarged by some new little stream emptying itself into it. A magnetic power, it seems, in such a gulf-stream of evil, attracts these casual and accidental encouragements.

We take the size of sin too low, and short, and wrong, when we measure it by the wrong it doth to ourselves, or our families, or our neighbours, or the nation wherein we live; indeed, herein somewhat of its evil and mischief doth appear; but to take its full length and proportion, we must consider the wrong it doth to this great, this glorious, this incomparable God. Sin is incomparably malignant, because the God principally injured by it is incomparably excellent.

Envy leads to evil.

Our model of evil ... is Satan, not because he does the wrong things, but because he induces others to do the wrong things by persuading them that evil is right.

Evil cannot be punished, but it is self-destructive.

The News of the World no longer exists. How nice to realise that even the most offensive things will eventually require a footnote to explain what they were.

Enlightenment delivers a man from evil.

Whoever becomes enlightened, forsake evil.

Do not allow envy to lead you to do evil.