3,115 Quotes About Evil

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.

To the kidnappers, I would say, 'I know Tom could forgive you for the evil you've done.' I hope I would be able, too.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.