3,115 Quotes About Evil

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

The more make up a woman wears the more she's tryin to hide. Make up can hide a lot of evil.

Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

Genius does not excuse evil.