3,115 Quotes About Evil

Religion will be a fanciful necessary evil, to kill millions with nuclear weapons. - Sixeye

There was nothing so harrowing as that fiendish sadistic laugh revealing the entity taking gluttonous delight in causing him excruciating pain and fear.

The Darkness was going to take quite some getting used to, if ever.

It is better not to believe in evil than to think you know what it is.

You have heard---or anyway you will---people talk about evil times or an evil generation. There are no such things. No epoch of history nor generation of human beings either ever was or is or will be big enough to hold the unvirtue of any given moment, anymore than they could contain all the air of any given moment; all they can do is hope to be as little soiled as possible during their passage through it.

She [Akhmatova] was not afraid of calling evil by its name and had learnt that do this was of the utmost importance

The thing Clay saw, the thing he now understood, was that the darkness of man was not an illusion. Men and women – the bold and the brave, the anxious, the timid, the poor, the wealthy, the sincere and the shallow – all hoped that evil was an illusion, but it was not.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. That’s what they say, right?

It was possible, I had realised, to resist evil but in doing so you acted alone. You stood or fell as an individual. You risked everything in the attempt: it might even be the case, I said, that evil could only be overturned by the absolute sacrifice of self. The problem was that nothing could give greater pleasure to your enemies.