3,115 Quotes About Evil

... it's not realistic to think we can fill our minds with corrupting images yet hang on to what we know is right. When we continually expose our minds to the standards of the culture, those standards begin to seep into our lives. The fatal change comes so gradually that, like the frog in the kettle, we don't even notice it. First we are no longer shocked by evil. Then we become accustomed to it. Then we tolerate it. Then it's only a tiny step to accept it as normal.

Pain is not the ultimate mode of perfection. It is merely provisional and a protest. It has reference to wrong, unhealthy, unjust surroundings. When the wrong, and the disease, and the injustice are removed, it will have no further place. It will have done its work. It was a great work, but it is almost over. Its sphere lessens every day.

When things get bad, they don't stop until you stop the badness-or die.

Evil, with its one character, stands opposite and against of the God, humans, and virtue, in each religion.

It was one of the things that she liked best when her mother told her the stories: villains could be heroic, and heroes could do evil.

Sometimes light illuminates things that are better left in the dark.

When the coffers are empty and their bellies growl, even good men turn bad.

¿Por qué nuestro consciente carece del sentimiento de asombro ante el mal?

The possibility of evil exists from the moment that a creature is made that can love and do good because it chooses and not because it is unable to do anything else. The actuality of evil exists from the moment that that choice is exercised in the wrong direction.