3,115 Quotes About Evil

Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.

There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.