Memorable Evil Quotes

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"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."
Aristotle
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."
Mark Twain
"In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe."
Michael Jackson
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
Albert Einstein
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
Voltaire
"Evil is a choice that goes beyond rationality."
Ravi Zacharias
"The only way for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
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"Evil draws men together."
Aristotle
"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
John Steinbeck
"To be a good villain, you have to be a good person first."
Patrick Rothfuss
"We are all bastards, but the good Lord would never even think of holding that against us."
Marilyn Manson
"Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he receives. He is capable of evil, and must take responsibility for it."
Joseph Conrad
"Evil has its own kind of beauty."
Khaled Hosseini
"The worst kind of evil is the one that considers itself to be good."
Christopher Hitchens
"If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Evil is a coward; it only attacks the good."
Victor Hugo
"The largest part of what we call 'evil' is simply ignorance."
Albert Schweitzer
"Where there’s no ambition, there is no evil."
Lao Tzu
"Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven."
John Milton
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri
"Evil is not the opposite of good; it is the absence of good."
Karl Barth
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"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist."
Charles Baudelaire
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
Stephen King
"Evil isn’t a metaphysical abstraction, it isn’t a horror movie villain: it’s the human capacity to do awful things."
Anna Quindlen
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal
"It is the curse of mankind that it learns to tolerate even its errors."
Hermann Hesse
"Evil is whatever distracts."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"In a free society, the government tends to be a benign force, but when things go wrong, it’s usually the evil side that manifests."
L. Neil Smith
"Sometimes evil is a matter of opinion, and sometimes it's not."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"Evil is a name for something that we do; it’s something we create."
Dan Brown
"Evil is not more than a corrupt good."
Augustine of Hippo
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for those who are good to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"It is better to be a villain than to be a coward."
Tom Robbins
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"Evil is like a disease, it can spread quickly, and before you know it, you're infected."
Ken Follett
"To deny evil is to be complicit in it."
Luis Alberto Urrea
"Evil may be averted by the power of goodness."
Bishop Desmond Tutu
"Sometimes, the hardest thing to do is to see that good can only come from those who are tormented by evil."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Evil is real, and it is personal, and it is alive."
Robert McKee
"Evil is a strange thing; it can wear the face of innocence."
Alyson Noel
"Evil requires the sanction of the victim."
Ayn Rand
"There is no cure for evil, only vigilance."
Khaled Hosseini
"Human beings are capable of great evil."
Nelson Mandela
"Evil is simply a word for those who oppose you."
George Orwell
"A deep sense of evil is the only way to recognize the good."
William Golding
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our table."
W.H. Auden
"The man who is truly good and who is thus a man of virtue will be most severely tested by evil and temptation."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In every man there is a potential murderer, a potential rapist, a potential thief."
Lindsay Lohan
"Evil may triumph, but never conquers."
Gustave Flaubert
"Evil is not to be traced back to the individual, but to the collective behavior of humanity."
Sigmund Freud
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
Nelson Mandela
"There is nothing worse than the habit of doing evil things that you want to justify."
William Butler Yeats
"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Lord Acton
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
"There’s a fine line between wickedness and wisdom."
Harold Pinter
"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
Albert Camus
"Evil is a choice, and most people choose evil."
Jesse Jackson
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
Alfred Adler
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
William Shakespeare
"Evil is a choice made by humans free will."
C.S. Lewis
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"A thought which does not rise to the level of action is not a true thought."
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"We must confront the coming truth, that we are all participants in our own evil."
Orson Scott Card
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
John F. Kennedy
"The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint. It is conceived and ordered, moved, and seconded in the clear spaces of the mind and in the name of good intentions."
A. C. Grayling
"There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised."
Anton LaVey
"Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system."
Joaquin A. F. de Oliveira
"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
Samuel Butler
"No one is born a villain. People are made into villains by circumstance."
Bobby B. Martin
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Evil is not a real thing, but it exists as a human concept; it is the result of the ignorance of the human spirit."
John Stuart Mill
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
Aristotle
"Evil is the absence of good."
Saint Augustine
"To ignore evil is to become accomplice to it."
Walter Lippmann
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
Francis Bacon
"Killing a terrorist is not murder."
John Ashcroft
"Evil is a parasite that feasts on petty grievances and mortal sins."
Russell Brand
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
"Evil endures a lot of middlemen."
Michael Ende
"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions."
T. S. Eliot
"Men can be as irrational as they can be evil."
Michel Foucault
"No man can be a judge in his own case."
Cicero
"We are all capable of great good and great evil."
Joseph Campbell
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."
George Orwell
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered molten rock, is irrelevant to our existence. Only the way we treat each other matters."
Niels Bohr
"Evil is as evil does."
Unknown
"True evil is often masked behind a façade of goodness."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"The line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."
John F. Kennedy
"Evil is the absence of empathy."
Unknown
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
Charles Baudelaire
"Man is the cruelest animal."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Evil can be beautiful. It can be cunning. It can be beautiful as a snake."
Pablo Picasso
"Revenge is in the act of violence, but vengeance is in the heart of evil."
Lao Tzu
"There is a thin line between love and hate, but there is no line between good and evil."
Unknown
"Evil does not kill; it breeds."
Unknown
"The darkness is not a thing, but a lack of light—it possesses no form, no presence, and therefore cannot be evil in itself."
David Lynch
"No one can do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as a devoted believer."
Rebecca West
"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity."
Simone Weil
"The face of evil is not always monstrous; sometimes it's just a hollow expression."
unknown
"As long as there is a human being in the world, there is evil."
Edvard Munch
"The root of all evil is the fear of death."
Unknown
"Evil is often the result of the absence of human qualities."
Gerard Manley Hopkins
"To know what is right and not do it is the worst form of cowardice."
Confucius
"The line between good and evil is drawn in the human heart."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."
Charles Baudelaire
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
William Shakespeare
"A person is defined by the choices they make in the face of evil."
Michele Serros
"It is said that the greatest evil is not the evil itself, but the lack of clarity about it."
John O'Donohue
"Evil is a consequence of our own weaknesses."
Unknown
"Inside every man there is a potential for great evil or great goodness."
Terry Goodkind
"Evil is a shadow that lurks in the quiet corners of our lives."
Unknown
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