Those who flame up in anger against you; Satan gave them the fire to do so! Those who scratch your wound for it to pain you; Satan gave them the stick to do so! Don’t...

The philosophy of taking up arms to kill for God is the worst blasphemy any man or group of men can ever invent as an excuse to snuff out human life

O, lack and doubt and fear can only comeBecause of plenty, confidence, and love!They are the shadow-forms about their feet,Because they are not perfect crystal-clearTo the all-searching sun in which they live.Dread of its loss...

À cette heure, elle voulut le mal, le mal que personne ne commet, le mal qui allait emplir son existence vide et la mettre enfin dans cet enfer dont elle avait toujours peur.

Much that may seem evil can be good.

what is being forced upon her.

Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?

Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your...

There’s never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn’t think he was fully justified. That’s a mental trick called...

The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect...

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

Jan could not recall ever seeing a creature more beautiful, though there nagged somewhere at the back of his mind the notion that she ought to have seemed hideous. Why? For she was pure, admirably...

You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

This isn’t the work of our people, Delilah. It’s a corruption of power. The gods are neutral, good and evil manifests in the deeds of mortals.”Or, just maybe– The power is our own and the...

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with...

They’ve worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself – this is called Lucifer.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we’re always sick.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

There’s no such thing as an evil race, just evil circumstances that make people do evil things.

When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don’t understand how dark and brutal it can be?

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

1) There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse.2) An omniscient, wholly good being would...

Evil may be ‘unscientific’ but so is a song or a smile.

One great objection to the Old Testament is the cruelty said to have been commanded by God. All these cruelties ceased with death. The vengeance of Jehovah stopped at the tomb. He never threatened to...

The evil the enemy may do never expresses all that he is. Nonviolence is a wager– not so much on the goodness of humanity– as on its infinite complexity.

I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of...

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

In most respects a pretty standard student domicile, there was something very unnerving about the apartment, and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Eventually I realized: the light in the bathroom never turns...

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on...

When I see an evil person, I cannot believe that once he was an innocent and sweet baby.

Evil is just a point of view

Au temps de La Barbarie à visage humain, je disais, comme Camus : l’idéologie est un multiplicateur de massacres ; on tue d’autant plus, et en d’autant plus grand nombre, qu’on le fait dans la...

My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?…

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has…

You may never understandHow the Stranger is inspired,But he is not always evil,And he is not always wrong.Though you drown in good intentions,You will never quench the fire.You’ll give in to your desireWhen the Stranger...

Something’s still wrong–the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone’s heart. A conscience that’s seared.

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

If the choice is between two evils, it is still evil,

You were born to lead people out of the darkness into light in the power of God. Dare to rise up to this calling! Never stand low for satan to mess up your destiny. You...

Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure...

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

The Devil can quote scripture, after all. And monsters can say “please” and “thank you” same as any mother’s son.

The real thing about evil… you figure out one side of it – the human side, say – and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is...

Thou hast gone on in all thy life hitherto, ever since thou wast born, in a continual opposition to God Himself, unto the infinite Lord, the eternal first being of all the world; thy life...