Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear....

How does evil arise? Where does it come from? We think of malevolent men-— murderers, rapists, tyrants—and somehow believe they are different creatures from us. They are not. All evil men were once innocent babes,...

A son for a son, heh. But that’s a grandson…and he never was much use.” –Walder Frey

Being Scared-off by EvilLastly, we deny the presence of evil because we are terrified by the horrendously hurtful, cruel, and bloody kinds of evil people tell us about—if we are willing to listen. This was...

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

Blogs are evil. Actually, the blogs aren’t as evil as blog comments.

Why didn’t you tell me that evil could be so lighthearted?

Pôs um sorriso que uma faca poderia exibir se por acaso ganhasse vida.

What would your good do if evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

He was the devil in a Sunday hat; he dressed and acted like a civil man, but inside he was just hatred and filth. Then, I guess after what I was planning to do to...

When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.

In one timeless instant a complex impression, not of knowledge but of feeling, penetrated her awareness like an indelible dream. An imprint of evil and a preponderance of good, both crying that somehow it was...

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.

We would have said the Nazis were evil in any event, since we had decided to fight them. This has always been the style in war, until very recently…in order that we can be frenzied...

It doesn’t matter if you do everything right, if you dress the right way and act the right way and follow all the rules, because evil will find you anyway. Evil’s resourceful that way.

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such...

My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they tolerate the wicked,Refusing them the active vigorous scornWhich vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.

The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.

The devil is always around the corner.

To remove the evil of egoism, service is the most efficient instrument.

Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be.

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

These minor, natural flaws did not explain why hers was but the deceptive beauty of the poisoned apple. It was not merely that she was shallow, a creature of simple malice: within her tiny skull...

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

Because that’s life, you know? Good and bad. You can’t have one without the other. The bad brings out the good in us, and the good can be corrupted by the bad. It’s always a...

Kent steepled his fingers in consideration. Blood-red rubies flashed in the sunlight, like the eyes of a demon clutched in his hands.

A great leader may be executed in the name of malevolence, yet when his followers look upon his legacy they will see not only the man who once stood, but even more will they see...

For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp...

It’s daft, locking us up,” said Nanny. “I’d have had us killed.””That’s because you’re basically good,” said Magrat. “The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.

That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this – a hole in the goodness of God.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

Tal vez todos los libros se escriben sólo porque los malos juegan con ventaja y eso es insoportable.

They’re power-hungry, the mundane said of the magical people. They’re immoral, people said, and they’re scary. Playing with the dark arts could plunge me into evil. I’d be pulled toward depravity. Blasphemy would begin to...

That’s why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? … They are Evil.

The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.

I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.

God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his...

Notorious Lucifer, King of Hell, claimed to know love again.

There’s more to people than some defined label,” said Arcie. “There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than law or disorders or fence-sittin. There’s prejudice, whimsey, affection, superstition, habit, upbringing, alliance,...

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world – stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death – and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen...

When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that...

What is it about money that makes people kill for it? I’ll have to think about that next time I do it.

For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.