Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it’s the absence of something.

Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only...

I hadn’t been “possessed”, after all. Not by an angel or a demon. Maybe there were aspects of both inside me, but I was the one who chose which to let out.

When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren’t enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to...

…That insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every...

World is beautiful but it is dangerous place to live, there is so much evil behind a normal person.

You don’t buy evil characters lattes. That’s not normal behavior.

There is in every village a torch – the teacher:and an extinguisher – the clergyman.

Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.

Government should never be able to do anything you can’t do. If you can’t steal from your neighbor, you can’t send the government to steal for you.

And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

The world (including Drapervilleh is not a nice place, and the innocent and the young have to take their chances. They cannot be watched over, twenty-four hours of the day. At what moment, from what...

Why did I, like thousands of others, have to carry a cross I hadn’t chosen, a cross which was not made for my shoulders and which didn’t concern me? Who decided to come rummaging around...

The most terrifying part was that the evil dwelling in those eyes could’ve gone unnoticed by many.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance

Evil isn’t born…Neither is purity. Because even as newborns, there is something wrong inside of all of us bound to spring up and activate itself within us.

Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it’s reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil...

One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are...

I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining. I believe in love even when not feeling it. I believe in God even when he is silent…

It’s no secret that we all live within a damning illusion called denial. We are doomed by our own far-reaching imaginations and beliefs that extend into a glorified version of eternity. How are we to...

The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind...

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil — or else an absolute ignorance.

white is not always light and black is not always dark.

Nije li, ipak, ljudska glupost mati svakog zla na ovom svetu?

How shall a man judge what to do in such times?”As he ever has judged,’ said Aragorn. ‘Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear…It is a man’s part to discern them, as much in...

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

What I learned in Rwanda was that God is not absent when great evil is unleashed. Whether that evil is man-made or helped along by darker forces, God is right there, saving those who respond...

I didn’t have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Most people only have stray thoughts and it stays at that. But you’ve got power, darlin’. You flung out walking evil. Let’s hope you can bring up a remedy too.

To take another person’s life for personal gain is the most selfish act imaginable. Especially when that other person is your clone.

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by our successors; the seeds of error and of ruin contained even in what...

But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things...

Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was created in God’s image. Either/or:...

That love, which is the highest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children of reflection. It works only evil in you. As soon as you wish to be natural,...

Given his personality, I’d say exorcism makes perfect sense as a favored pastime.

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Nothing in nature is evil.

As in this world there are degrees of evils, So in this world there are degrees of devils.

If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good!

If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to...

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.