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Evil Quotes

"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."

"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."

Marie Curie, Polish Scientist

Evil, Humanity, Will

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"Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one."

"Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one."

Jean de La Fontaine, French Poet

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"Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything."

"Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything."

Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian

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"There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers."

"There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers."

Joe Mantegna, American Actor

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"Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on."

"Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

Evil, Prejudice, Race, Shadow

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"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."

"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, end of the film, end of the evil... This how it must go and it will go, if you think that evil has gone it's still here. If you believe in god, that's means that you believe this evil."

"I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, end of the film, end of the evil... This how it must go and it will go, if you think that evil has gone it's still here. If you believe in god, that's means that you believe this evil."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Evil, Truth, Life, Power, Wisdom

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"There is no evil in the world without a remedy."

"There is no evil in the world without a remedy."

Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian Poet

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"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."

"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Evil, Facts, Forget, World

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"There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come."

"There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through."

"An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through."

William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist

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"You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree."

"You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree."

Gene Wolfe, American Writer

Evil, Existence

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"This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man."

"This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, American Clergyman

Evil, Man, Vice

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"MANY PHENOMENA--wars, plagues, sudden audits--have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man."

"MANY PHENOMENA--wars, plagues, sudden audits--have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Evil, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

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

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

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Evil, Goodness, Sense, Writer

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"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."

"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader

Evil, Will, Wrong

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"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."

"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."

"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, French Novelist

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"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."

"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian Novelist

Evil, Name, World

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"They that know no evil will suspect none."

"They that know no evil will suspect none."

Ben Jonson, English Poet

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"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."

"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

Evil, Indifference

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"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."

"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."

F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher

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"The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil."

"The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil."

Caleb Cushing, American Diplomat

Evil, Mission, Words, World

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"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."

"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."

Daniel Okrent, American Editor

Evil, Journalism, Saying

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"Dialogue is a necessary evil."

"Dialogue is a necessary evil."

Fred Zinnemann, American Director

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"That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World."

"That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World."

William Petty, English Economist

Evil, Old, Will, World

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"When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it."

"When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it."

Lewis B. Smedes, American Theologian

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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."

"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything."

"You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything."

Ralph Fiennes, British Actor

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"Be good to others, that will protect you against evil."

"Be good to others, that will protect you against evil."

Abu Bakr, Saudi Arabian Statesman

Evil, Will, Saudiarabian

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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood."

"Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Evil, War, Hope, Conflict

"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."

"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Evil, Experience, Battle, Truth

"You can see the evil, the evil is everywhere. As Far as I can tell I can build a town full of horror."

"You can see the evil, the evil is everywhere. As Far as I can tell I can build a town full of horror."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Evil, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does."

"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

"I don't believe in raw evil.' Noah said, 'It doesn't care if you believe in it'."

"I don't believe in raw evil.' Noah said, 'It doesn't care if you believe in it'."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Evil, Belief, Reality, Fear

"The evil thing is inside, not out."

"The evil thing is inside, not out."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Evil, Truth, Life, Darkness

"Evil Dead film sounds like the Red Hood, but this time the bad red hood."

"Evil Dead film sounds like the Red Hood, but this time the bad red hood."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Evil, Truth, Horror, Life

"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do."

"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Evil, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come."

"We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come."

Maria W. Chapman, American Abolitionist

"If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet."

"If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Evil, God, Heaven, Creation

"Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him?"

"Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him?"

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Evil, Human, Nature, Life

"Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was."

"Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was."

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

Evil, Darkness, Morality, Reality

"All evil is good become cancerous."

"All evil is good become cancerous."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

Evil, Transformation, Cancer, Corruption

"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."

"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Evil, Confidence, Naivety, Life

"Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking."

"Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Evil, Awareness, Truth, Deception

"We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people."

"We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Evil, Laughter, Power, Influence

"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."

"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Evil, Truth, Power, Life, Regret

"Some people are so evil when they enter a house, happiness escapes through the window and unhappiness and fear installed in its place."

"Some people are so evil when they enter a house, happiness escapes through the window and unhappiness and fear installed in its place."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Evil, Happiness, Fear, People

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