Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven’t wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give...

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need...

The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes...

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

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...

The challenge for people today–and it is not and easy one–is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what’s left?

Evil takes only prisoners….Time takes none.”From The Tenth, chapter 28.

No one was meant to see hell before they got there. No one should have to live with the devil. So many homilies on faith were ruined once you no longer required it for belief.

You only know me as an ordinary human being, with flesh, blood and bones, but there is something about me too hard for you to decipher, for if i let you, you will ever regret...

If blood can produce money through rituals or the so-called human sacrifice, then it is the basis on which we live, so it is very essential to save and protect it from the fiendish eyes...

One of the biggest difficulties in our contemporary society is that we try to locate the evil in somebody else and then we try to get rid of him. The police are pigs or the...

God wants us to worry about our sins before we sin; the devil wants us to worry after we sin. God wants us to feel free after we repent (for we really are free then);...

Speak of evil, and you summon it.

Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn’t fail to devastate in its time.

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly...

You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.

Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead...

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

You’re a Dark One,” said Anton. “All you see in everything is evil, treachery, trickery.””All I do is not close my eyes to them,” Edgar retorted. “And that’s why I don’t trust Zabulon. I distrust...

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury….

To light a candle is to cast a shadow…

When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be glad and reject the thoughts that arise within you, knowing that if they...

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow...

It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom.

It’s not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn’t evil, it’s just incredibly stupid.

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil.

As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil. Without the stern, joyless rabbis and their 613...

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.

Kama nje ya uwezo wa kisheria ni uovu, hivyo basi, ndani ya uwezo wa kisheria ni wema. Kila mtu amepewa vipaji na Mwenyezi Mungu. Tumia vipaji vyako kutenda mema. Usitumie vipaji vyako kutenda maovu.

Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out of pride, may claim their own authorities over what constitutes good...

Don’t ever call me mad, Mycroft. I’m not mad. I’m just … well, differently moraled, that’s all.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

God can allow you to pass through storms and get to your success. But what the devil loves to do is to make you not to realize it that the storm is over. He wishes...

Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers)

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

It’s wrong to anticipate evil.

illegitimate” sources of satisfaction: experiencing a loss of self-respect for indulging in activities contrary to personal moral standards of conduct; risking the displeasure and misunderstanding of others important to her; and opening oneself to the...

It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can’t explain, bad and terrible things.

War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

Omens don’t influence the eradication of a evil from a society. it’s all upto you when YOU want.

Dialogo tra Levi Matteo e Satana (il mago Woland).”Se vieni da me, perché non mi hai salutato, ex pubblicano?”, replico Woland severo.”Perché non voglio che tu stia in salute”, rispose brusco il nuovo venuto.”Ma dovrai...