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.

The bad things don’t seem to happen to bad people.’That’s because they already did. There’s no original evil left in the world.

Water is so friendly when you have it on your palms, but so evil when they have you on theirs.

I just have a serious problem with business for business’ sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

You answer to none but the whim of your own black heart.

Your whole life, you are told what is right and what is wrong. What you should do and what you should not do. What makes a good citizen and what makes a traitorous one. What...

The overwhelming tendency of markets is to bring people together, break down prejudices, persuade people of the need to cooperate regardless of class, race, religion, sex/gender, and physical ability. The same is obviously and especially...

Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural world rather than the God who made them. The result is that the...

Because one thing God gave us—and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much—is free will. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose...

…some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

quote from Chase the Moon- Some people are just downright wicked, and sometimes evil wins – but not always.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth.

God hijacks and bends evil to work peace and healing. If God were only a God of justice, He could punish evil but do no more. Only a God of grace can use our evil...

I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it.

Friends who drag one away into evil habits and vicious deeds, are prowling around in search of victims.

The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals.

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish,...

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection… But this is the real question we ought to ask: Is this imperfection the final truth, is evil absolute...

We’ve heard them all talk about Dust, and they’re so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed them, even though we could see that what they were doing was wicked and evil and...

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil—well, that’s something else.

Loki’d!

Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write...

The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in fashioning the central villains of The Count of Monte Cristo. Reading court documents...

Alas! There’s no one in hell … all the devils are here!

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Murderers are not monsters, they’re men. And that’s the most frightening thing about them.

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world’s evils; it’s all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens,...

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.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

Life in all its resiliency, beauty and strength is sometimes eclipsed by its unquestionable transient frailty. Today we are alive…tomorrow is not promised. And it seems, the evil that lurks in the shadows, this side...

It’s obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O’Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing...

….This time she did not feel a thing when the Headmaster stuck the pin into her arm.

As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished.

The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

I detest audiences – not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they’re a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

I only have two fingers left.I wrote the lies of my farewell with two fingers.That is the truth.We are evil.They are kids.We are evil.

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.