3,115 Quotes About Evil

We must do this. It has been prophesied.' You relieve yourself of choice. Relieve yourself of consequences. Torture me, harm me, kill me. Do all these things, but do not pretend there is a must. That is how evil is rationalised.

You can't beat Evil with Evil. Maybe to win a battle, but not the war.

Idealism is only bad if your ideals are bad – or if your ideals are good but your methods don't reflect them.

Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into the design, somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

Fighting evil is like arguing with an idiot.

It's the curse of being Evil. It makes you torment the ones you love.

Nobody wants blood on their hands, not even the blood of a devil, because it's still just as red.

My conscience might not permit me to do the things that the darker side of me would most certainly like to do. But in the end, what makes the greater story; how I beat the darker side or how it beat me?