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This is what evil does; it makes choices for others in the name of religion, in the name of government, in the name of community, in the name of personal gain, that these individuals are best able to make for themselves.
— John   Kramer, Blythe
The enlightenment driven away,The habit-forming pain,Mismanagement and grief:We must suffer them all again.
— W.H. Auden
The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.
— Ahmed Mostafa
If you turn from evil ways, you will be well.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Have you ever wronged a man . . . just to do him harm? Or have you always had a reason?’Kaspar answered quickly. ‘There was always a reason.’‘There you have it,’ said Samas as he sat down. He motioned for Kaspar to fetch over a cup of water for him. ‘You would never look at yourself as “evil” no matter what the other fellow thought of what you did. It’s in our nature. And that’s the great secret of evil. It is never viewed as evil by those who perpetrate the evil.
— Raymond E. Feist, Exile's Return
Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can bring out, prime, ignite, set on fire and cause to blaze splendidly, and that evil can never extinguish?
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension yet--and this is its horror--it can spread like a fungus over the surface of the earth and lay waste the entire world. Evil comes from a failure to think.
— Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
I saw the Tracker—but that’s wrong, really. I saw right to where the tracking thing was. I saw those winnowing tentacles come out again, and the front figure pause, and then—it’s the only word that actually describes it—ooze on again on its via dolorosa. And at that the hind figure seemed to summon all its strength. It seemed to open out a fringe of arms or tentacles, a sort of corona of black rays spread out. It gaped with a full expansion, and even I could feel that there was a perfectly horrible attraction, or vacuum drag, being exerted. That was horrible enough, with the face of the super-suffering man now almost under me resonating my own terror. But the worst thing was that, as the tentacles unwrapped and winnowed out toward their prey, I saw they weren’t really tentacles at all. They were spreading cracks, veins, fissures, rents of darkness expanding from a void, a gap of pure blackness. There’s only one way to say it—one was seeing right through the solid world into a gap, an ultimate maelstrom. And from it was spreading out a—I can only call it so—a negative sunrise of black radiation that would deluge and obliterate everything. Of course it was still only a fissure, a vent, but one realized—This is a hole, a widening hole, that has been pierced in the dike that defends the common-sense, sensuous world. Through this vortex-hole that is rapidly opening, over this lip and brink, everything could slip, fall in, find no purchase, be swallowed up.It was like watching a crumbling cliff with survivors clinging to it being undercut and toppling into a black tide that had swallowed up its base. This negative force could drag the solidest things from their base, melt them, engulf the whole hard, visible world. And we were right on that brink. What was after us, for I knew now I was in its field, was not a thing of any passions or desires. Those are limited things, satiable things—in a way, balanced things, and so familiar, safe even, almost friendly in comparison with this. You know the grim saying, “You can give a sop to Cerberus, but not to his Master.” No, this was—that’s the technical term, I found, coined by those who have been up against this and come back alive—this was absolute Deprivation, really insatiable need, need that nothing can satisfy, absolute refusal to give, to yield. It is the second strongest thing in the universe, and, indeed, outside that. It could swallow the whole universe, and the universe would go for nothing, because in that gap the whole universe could fill not a bit of it. It would remain as empty, as gaping, as insatiable as ever, for it is the bottomless pit made by unstanchable Lack.
— Gerald Heard, Dromenon: The Best Weird Stories of Gerald Heard
Slayeth the evil that lives inside you, where they are walking the Devil walks too.
— Peter Simeti, CHAIR
On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be
—  nothing else rewards it.
Behind every villain is a truth, whether it be perceived or actual.
— Dalton Frey, The Darkest Light
Some words we use all the time are difficult to define when we actually have to think about them. We use the word “evil” all the time but when asked to define what we are talking about, it can be quite difficult. Think about evil as you would think of counterfeit currency. A counterfeit is the corruption of something real. You can have real currency without the existence of any counterfeits. You cannot, however, have counterfeits without the real thing existing first. Evil is dependent on the existence of goodness but goodness is not dependent on evil. Goodness was there first. It is an absolute. Evil must always be thought of in relationship with absolute goodness.
— Jon Morrison, Clear Minds & Dirty Feet: A Reason to Hope, a Message to Share
There is a method to man’s wickedness
—  it evolves by degree.
People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don't realize what they're doing until it is too late.
— Mike Klepper
You are quite right, I changed my mind and do no longer speak of “radical evil.” … It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth that can be radical.(letter to Scholem from December 1964)
— Hannah Arendt
She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death.
— Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Your intentions will be good. Without consideration and forethought, however, your actions could still be evil. That is the problem, of course, evil is always easy and resisting it is never so. Evil is relentless; and anyone, if they tire, if they are not vigilant, can fall prey to it.
— Michael A. Stackpole, I, Jedi
Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect.” “Yes, it is. But it is politically correct.” (The Rise of Political Correctness)
— Angelo Codevilla
The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet.
— Steven Franssen, Make Self-Knowledge Great Again
Celia Wird, have you no shame? Standing out there half-naked, flashing those young boys like some kind of streetwalker!"Aric's dark brows shot up to his crown. "What the fu--""Mind your own business, you goddamn raisin with legs!" Taran screamed from inside the house.Mrs. Mancuso flipped me off, of course. Bren flashed her a panty-dropping grin. "It's okay, Mrs. M. I'll be sure to take Celia to confession later so Father O'Callaghan can slap the sin out of her.""Be sure that you do." Mrs. Mancuso gave Bren an approving nod, and me another stiff one. Aric remained fixed to my front walkway. He may have been a guardian of the earth, but I doubted he'd ever encountered evil the likes of Mrs. Mancuso.
— Cecy Robson, Sealed with a Curse
Monsters that live under children's beds have power only because of the child's ignorance. Thus the nonexistent becomes efficacious.
— Mike Klepper
Look, kid,” he said, “you don’t spend a lifetime in comedy without learning a thing or two about evil.
— Larry McCarley, The Comeback: A Novella of the Strange
No horrific thing done by a people today is ever justified by what horrible things people have done before.
— Chuck Bridges
It isn't the evil and indecent who are flung down into the depths, no! Oh, no! The evil and decisive fling down those who are moral, honest and noble but maladroit, hesitant and full of scruples.
— Andrzej Sapkowski, Wieża Jaskółki
If a person do not seek God’s face, all of his merits will be working for evil
— Sunday Adelaja
Ordinary men commit extraordinary evil all the time. Trust me.
— Mindy Mejia, Everything You Want Me to Be
The critical spirit rises up against itself and consumes its form. But instead of coming out of this process greater and purified, it devours itself in a kind of self-cannibalism and takes a morose pleasure in annihilating itself. Hyper-criticism eventuates in self-hatred, leaving behind it only ruins. A new dogma of demolition is born out of the rejection of dogmas. Thus we euro-americans are supposed to have only one obligation: endlessly atoning for what we have inflicted on other parts of humanity. How can we fail to see that this leads us to live off self-denunciation while taking a strange pride in being the worst? Self-denigration is all too clearly a form of indirect self-glorification. Evil can come only from us; other people are motivated by sympathy, good will, candor. This is the paternalism of the guilty conscience: seeing ourselves as the kings of infamy is still a way of staying on the crest of history.
— Pascal Bruckner, The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism
Society has made it that, is very hard to accept the evil within us but truth be told no matter how good an individual is there is always that lingering feeling to commit one sort of evil or the other.
— Emmoduro
Nothing is purely evil.
— K. Weikel, Building Monsters
But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?
— William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
We priests are sneered at and always shall be—the accusation is such an easy one—as deeply envious, hypocritical haters of virility. Yet whosoever has experienced sin must know that lust, with its parasitic growth, is for ever threatening to stifle virility as well as intelligence. Impotent to create, it can only contaminate in the germ the frail promise of humanity; it is probably at the very source, the primal cause of all human blemishes; and when amid the windings of this huge jungle whose paths are unknown, we encounter Lust, just as she is, as she emerged forth from the hands of the Master of Prodigies, the cry from our hearts is not only terror but imprecation: 'You, you alone have set death loose upon the world!
— Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
The worst evil is that most subtle evil. It is the evil that is merely 'base' which is more evil than evil itself. For it is the one closest to righteousness, the one indistinguishable and doused in virtue.
— Criss Jami
God's strength is rooted in being faithful to his true Self, in just Being good. The Devil's strength depends on synergies, agreements, cooperation and beliefs.
— Robin Sacredfire
If we read the scriptures, we shall escape the evils of sin.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If wish to be free from evil of sin, we must study the Scriptures.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we wish to be free from evil of sin, we must study the Scriptures.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Vexis stopped crying. She now looked more annoyed than anything. She feigned like she was trying to remember something. “So, eh, was he the fat one or the crippled one? Or the fat, crippled one? Y’know, it was just so much fun watching them hobble towards their body parts, I didn’t think to ask for names.
— C.M.  Hayden, The Reach Between Worlds
Yet, my grandfather was not a monster. He was simply a man of ordinary moral courage whose capacity for great evil was revealed to his and my everlasting shame. Labeling someone a monster implies that he is from another world, one which has nothing to do with us. It cuts off the bonds of affection and fear, assures us of our own superiority, but there's nothing learned, nothing gained. It's simple, but it's cowardly. I know now that only by empathizing with a man like my grandfather can we understand the depth of the suffering he caused. There are no monsters. The monster is us.
— Ken Liu, The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work
— Sunday Adelaja
To Reap The Result Of Destructive Behavior Is To Do Evil
— Sunday Adelaja
All discrimination - whatever form it takes - is evil and that the world can go to pieces because of it.
— Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper
Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other. Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome. This, too, was myself.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.
— Criss Jami
Confrontation is not bad. Goodness is supposed to confront evil.
— Fred Shuttlesworth
To make an action honorable, it ought to be agreeable to the age, and other circumstances of the person; since it is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
— Plutarch
We, humans, easily associate every Good with God and every bad with devil, ignoring the fact that God is the creator and origin of everything.
— Tarif Naaz
Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Evil men flourish. The righteous suffer. The Lord never promises we won’t—only that He’ll sustain us when the tribulation comes.
— Roseanna M. White, The Lost Heiress
When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
Rincewind stared, and knew that there were far worse things than Evil. All the demons in Hell would torture your very soul, but that was precisely because they valued souls very highly; evil would always try to steal the universe, but at least it considered the universe worth stealing. But the gray world behind those empty eyes would trample and destroy without even according its victims the dignity of hatred. It wouldn't even notice them.
— Terry Pratchett
... it is to your credit that you recognize that if he was a monster then it was other monstrous things which made him so. The iron forged on the anvil cannot be blamed for the hammer...
— Terry Pratchett, Dodger
I don't think this one's business as usual. Me evil cunt sense is tinglin'.
— Garth Ennis, The Boys, Volume 9: The Big Ride
Oh, had I, weak and faint of speech, words to teach my fellow-creatures the beauty and capabilities of man's mind; could I, or could one more fortunate, breathe the magic word which would reveal to all the power, which we all possess, to turn evil to good, foul to fair; then vice and pain would desert the new-born world!It is not thus: the wise have taught, the good suffered for us; we are still the same; and still our own bitter experience and heart-breaking regrets teach us to sympathize too feelingly with a tale like this.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
For the grace of bearing life's inevitable evils is itself agood, and makes goodness arise even from evils byopposing them or enduring them with courage.
— A.C. Grayling
Larger than life character; a couple of hundred years ago he would have been a pirate. "When in evil company, try to blend in" - that was one of his.
— Garth Ennis, The Boys, Volume 9: The Big Ride
On Christmas Eve," Joe said, "when you were reading 'The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids' to Matty, Corrie and I were sitting on the stairs listening."Jo looked at Lilli, his face stern."The bit I always remember best in that story is the bit when the wolf goes to the miller and tells him to throw flour over his paws to disguise them." He began to quote from the story: "'The miller thought to himself, "The wolf is going to harm someone," and refused to do as he was told. Then the wolf said, "If you do not do as I tell you, I will kill you." The miller was afraid, and did as he was told, and threw the flour over the wolf's paws until they were white. This is what mankind is like.'"He repeated the final sentence."'This is what mankind is like.
— Peter Rushforth, Kindergarten
Is the Starwife a witch?" asked Firgil. "Is any wise female a witch? Just because they have been blessed by the Green and given strange and beautiful gifts, does not mean they use them for evil purposes.
— Robin Jarvis, Whortle's Hope
A knowledge with no clear idea of Evil as universe and principle, a knowledge that pays no mind to the evil that man is and was and for which he is forced to atone, is knowledge with a view to Evil, in favor of Evil, and probably suggested by Evil.
— Ceronetti
The old queen had failed them so miserably... She was such a bitter disappointment. But Ursula was different. There was no one to distract her, no one for her to love. She was alone in the world, alone in her grief, and alone with her pain. No, she wouldn't disappoint them. Unlike the old queen, Ursula would be able to fill her heart with hate.
— Serena Valentino, Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch
True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Many grim tales stem from your green lands, and still deeds both noble and evil shall yet unfold there.
— Robin Jarvis, Thomas
Female say Pack Leader stop,” Pack Leader said angrily.“What?” Caine could make no sense of it till he saw Diana striding up, dark hair flying, eyes furious.“I told this filthy beast to stop,” Diana said, barely controlled.“Stop what?” Caine demanded.“They’re still attacking the kids,” Diana said. “We’ve won. Sam is dead. Call them off, Caine.”Caine turned his attention back to the battle between Drake and the monster. “They’re coyotes,” Caine said coldly.Diana flew at him. “You’ve lost your mind, Caine. This has to stop. You’ve won. This has to stop.”“Or what, Diana? Or what?” Caine demanded. “Go get Lana. I’m hurt. Pack Leader, do what you want.”“Maybe this is why your mother abandoned you,” Diana said savagely. “Maybe she could see that you weren’t just bad, you were twisted and sick and evil.
— Michael Grant, Gone
Why can’t she see it? Why can’t she see the hidden monster which lives inside of him? He’s standing there, his back still away from my mum, but he’s showing me that evil. He’s showing me the monster that is just itching to get out. I know what he would do without Mum being there, so I’m so glad that she is, but what I can’t understand is how blind she and my sister are to him. It’s almost as if he can walk on water as far as they’re concerned.
— Jaimie Roberts, Siren
You and a select few of your ancestors, including your mother, are special protectors of your realm, here on earth. You are here to keep balance between what is right and wrong, good and evil. You and you alone are the Keeper of a deadly sword, known as the Ferryman. You must learn to wield the Ferryman and protect your world from destruction.
— Ellie Elisabeth, The Half Life
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
— Albert Einstein
There is often no line between perfection and evil.
— Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it
— Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Evil is like a shadow. It follows you.
— Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
-No, not it...I mean...what makes things break up like they do?-Piggy rubbed his glasses slowly and thought. When he understood how Ralph had gone towards accepting him he flushed pinkly with pride.-I donnot, Ralph. I expect it's him.--Jack?--Jack- A taboo was evolving round that word too.
— William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Evil exists everywhere. Sometimes I think our limited senses are designed to protect us from awareness of its presence. We trust them to provide us with knowledge but it may be that they block out realization of horrors we cannot bear.
— Robert Bloch, Night of the Ripper
I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Not all monsters are filled with darkness.
— Carrie Ryan, Slasher Girls & Monster Boys
We’re the villains you root for in the story.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Return to the Isle of the Lost
Not every story is true. And sometimes the things that were wicked become the things that save us, and the things that were good doom us to misery and pain.
— Kelly Barnhill, The Witch's Boy
There is something in our soul that loathes true attention much more violently than flesh loathes fatigue. That something is much closer to evil than flesh is. That is why, every time we truly give our attention, we destroy some evil in ourselves. If one pays attention with this intention, fifteen minutes of attention is worth a lot of good works.
— Simone Weil
Man's devilish thoughts is the devil and the devil is man.
— Auliq-Ice
Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil
—  evil in the right place and time becomes good.
The devil prince of this world, but this world don’t last so long for mortal man.
— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name.
— John Connolly, The Lovers
Evil is a word we use to describe the absence of Good, just as we use the word darkness to describe the absence of Light or death to describe the absence of Life. Both evil and darkness can only be understood in relation to Light and Good; they do not have any actual existence. I am Light and I am Good. I am Love and there is no darkness in me. Light and Good actually exist. So, removing yourself from me will plunge you into darkness. Declaring independence will result in evil because apart from me, you can only draw upon yourself. That is death because you have separated yourself from me: Life…This could mean that in once instance, the good may be the presence of cancer or the loss of income—or even a life.”~Sarayu
— William Paul Young, The Shack
It has always seemed to me that there are two types of people in this world: those rendered impotent by the sheer weight of evil it contains, and who refuse to act because they see no point, and those who choose their battles and fight them to the end, as they understand that to do nothing is definitely worse than to do something and fail. --The Collector
— John Connolly, The Unquiet
You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Evil Dead film sounds like the Red Hood, but this time the bad red hood.
— Deyth Banger
You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?
— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person; even a mischievous little chimney, or a dormer like a dimple, can catch up a beholder with a sense of fellowship; but a house arrogant and hating, never off guard, can only be evil.
— Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
What is evil?' asked the Fiend
— Joseph Delaney, I Am Grimalkin
The Magician should devise for himself a definite technique for destroying "evil." The essence of such a practice will consist in training the mind and the body to confront things which case fear, pain, disgust, shame and the like. He must learn to endure them, then to become indifferent to them, then to become indifferent to them, then to analyze them until they give pleasure and instruction, and finally to appreciate them for their own sake, as aspects of Truth. When this has been done, he should abandon them, if they are really harmful in relation to health and comfort.
— Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
If we stop helping people because we’re afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I’ll stop them.
— Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
Yes, we need to pray for Orlando/Britain/this election/the World, but we also need to act upon it and band together to oppose Evil.
— Rowan Blanchard
Now that little problem of yours, this business of not knowing good men from bad men and villains from heroes and so forth...There's still plenty for you to do. And you'll do it. And when you fall in love and have a mistress or a wife and children to look after, it will all seem easier." He opened the door but stopped on the threshold. "Surround yourself with human beings, my dear. They are easier to fight for than principles." He laughed. "But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose such a wonderful machine." With a wave of his hand he shut the door.
— Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
The jury’s still out on your level of intellect. After all, you signed up with Evil Incorporated in the first place.
— Katherine McIntyre, Scrying for Summer
We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, and burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sometimes I am asked if I know the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude HAS a response. What I do know is that there is response in responsibility. When we speak of this era of evil and darkness, so close and yet so distant, responsibility is the key word,The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future.
— Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accident
perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.
— Jacob M. Held, Stephen King and Philosophy
Provided there is a church which proclaims the mutual humanity and deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, evil will never be able to bring it to the point of attrition.
— James Mikołajczyk, Jesus the Jew, Christ the King: Exploring the Hypostatic Union Between the Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith
There are 10,000 explanations for why evil exist, but only one that I agree with, " And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
— R.A.Delmonico
Most people bestow tremendous power onto those human beings we consider evil, who cause of threaten harm to others, even though we know they are acting from their own pain or fear. Would ignoring evil disarm it? Don’t dismiss the idea. As we have declared War on Terror, a War on Drugs, a War on Poverty, a War on Crime, the problems only seem to have gotten bigger. We cling tthe notion of evil as detrimental, unpredictable force in our world and refuse any suggestion that it is not real. We argue for our fear about terrorism or climate change or economic instability, heatedly trying to prove that things are only getting worse. And in doing so, we reinforce the principle that what we focus on grows. We create our experience by where we place our attention. What we resist, persists.
— Ellen Debenport, The Five Principles: A Guide To Practical Spirituality
While I knew him, he made me see--Poe did; made me understand that, unlike a bodily organ, the soul desires, even wills, its own continuance.It can be said to be the seat of will and desire and, even in its necrotic state, the root of evil. ... A Sunday school lesson or one of Cotton Mather's gaudy rants that helped to kindle the Salem bonfires is nearer to the truth of it than a fable by Poe, Hawthorne, or Melville. Evil's a malignancy beyond the skill and scalpel of {doctors} to heal or extirpate.
— Norman Lock, The Port-Wine Stain
...But first appearances are often deceptive. Not everything monstrous looking is evil, and not everything fair is good...and in every fairytale, there is a grain of truth.
— Andrzej Sapkowski
If I had a box full of all the evils of the world, I'd open it just a little way and push you inside. Then I'd close it again for always.
— Mike Carey
If she actually had friends, maybe she wouldn't have turned out so nasty and evil.
— Liz Braswell, Once Upon a Dream
All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
Perhaps it is true that, by some definitions, Satan is more religious than God. Many of the particularly proud sinners are deceived into thinking that Satan is anti-religious, that he likes seeing people do immoral things simply because he likes immoral things. Doubtful; Satan likes for people to do immoral things so that he can blame them for doing immoral things. The Father of Lies laughs not with his teammates, but at them.
— Criss Jami
I think you are falling into the very general error of confining the spiritual world to the supremely good; but the supremely wicked, necessarily, have their portion in it. The merely carnal, sensual man can no more be a great sinner than he can be a great saint. Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant.
— Arthur Machen, The White People and Other Weird Stories
It's funny isn't it??YOu don't want to stop it??Don't ya??...I don't give a shit about your opinion what I want I will do...You are now part of this story, unfortunately, just by reading this you make yourself part of this story, like it or not that's how it goes.Once upon a time there was one girl and one boy staying home banned to go outside everything was locked it wasn't one day, 2 days it was whole 10 years. Their family always was outside communicating with the other people and you didn't even exist, they knew you but they didn't wanted you... it was somewhere in the end of the Second War in which 50 soldiers just came in home, you were screaming... again and again they asked what's that... your mother said that she will handle it... and what??Slap after slap, kick after kick then the father comes playing with the knife and he was juggling and one moment he made the knife with the spike in front of your eyes he tied your hands, he put a Scotch tape on your mouth and what??? He was taking your eye... by the knife and eating them... then he started fast and fast hitting with the knife without looking in random place and in this game..... it ended horrible??The boy was first without eyes the girl was a second without a legs, years and however her tongue was cut... why??Evil should speak... evil is on the first place. Never ends, there isn't even and beginning it's inside!
— Deyth Banger
Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
The world has come to such a state that one can no longer find anyone who does good.
— Girolamo Savonarola
In this view, man is an energy-convertingorganism who must exert his manipulative powers, who must damage his world in some ways, who must make it uncomfortable for others, etc., by his own nature as an active being. He seeks self-expansionfrom a very uncertain power base. Even if man hurtsothers, it is because he is weak and afraid, not because he is confident and cruel. Rousseau summed up this point of view with the idea that only the strong person can be ethical, not the weak one.
— Ernest Becker
You can see the evil, the evil is everywhere. As Far as I can tell I can build a town full of horror.
— Deyth Banger
The Devil's minions worked his treacherous plot through the hearts of men, possessing them, ruling them. These hounds of hell ran wild these days through their human hosts, working greater and greater abominations.
— Eric J. Martindale
I write about scoundrels; my specialty is generally scoundrels. If somebody's done a bad thing, I just talk about it. I don't prettify it or anything. My characters, a lot of them are disgusting — what they've done in the past. Somebody described them once as "last-ditch attempts at justification." And sometimes that's what my characters or my personae are doing: they're saying, "Yes, I did this and that thing, and perhaps it was evil. It was bad — maybe it wasn't even evil — but this is why I did it. You don't know the circumstances surrounding it." And this is the telling; they're almost retelling what happened from their point of view .... I use "bad words" whenever I feel the need, you know, I just put 'em in there — if it's true to my character. I always like to think that I'm doing things that are true to my charcter. And I hope that, when I'm dealing with violence, for example, that it's not gratuitous, that it's coming out of character that requires that .... I usually start with character, rather than a concept or an idea. If I do want to deal with an idea, I must create a character, in order to work from there, from that angle.
— Ai
I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, end of the film, end of the evil... This how it must go and it will go, if you think that evil has gone it's still here. If you believe in god, that's means that you believe this evil.
— Deyth Banger
The evil should end one for all.
— Deyth Banger
I sense pure evil. I see a figure all dressed in black, but I can't make out the face.
— Stan Schatt, Hello Again
Be very careful when you judge another human being. Do not measure anybody strictly based on the bad you see in them and ignore all the good. Be wary of any man who intentionally ignores another man's record of deeds or work history simply to impose their own agenda. Such a man's judgment lacks merit and should be disregarded immediately. Without a conscience, there is no truth in them.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.
— Thomas Jefferson
All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing
— Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honorable
You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?
— Terry Pratchett
He is terribly bright; he is handsome; he is charming; and you have spoiled him horribly. In other words, he has all the makings of a true monster.
— Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.
— Criss Jami
Evil gains work their punishment.
— Sophocles, Fragments
But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else.
— Susan Sontag
I said it was a brutal thing."No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it.
— Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
If evil exists its to be found in our fears.
— Paulo Coelho, Adultery
One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her- is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
— Gregory Maguire
The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.
— Michael Gruber, The Book of Air and Shadows
Do you know the amount of evil done by well-meaning humans? Oodles. Do you know the amount done by ill-meaning devils? Infinitesimal.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
You can’t exist on this plane for long purely one thing or another. A totally evil creature is so destructive that it obliterates itself. A totally good one… the same. So, we mix a bit of coffee with our cream.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. Because all of us crazy fuckers can’t stand it when someone else lets their crazy show.
— Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
That was how evil magnified itself: it took root in the young and grew along with them.
— Claudia Gray, Star Wars - Lost Stars
None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and just as complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
What was worse, being crazy or being evil?
— Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such dichotomy as “human rights” versus “property rights.” No human rights can exist without property rights.
— Ayn Rand
Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.
— Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants
Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from compassion with suffering, from understanding the other person.
— Joseph Campbell
Any good world would allow for us to have free will, yes?" he continued. "Can we agree to this point? But once human beings have free will, they also have the ability to make choices - and commit evil. Thus, this very good thing, free will, allows the possibility of evil into our fine world.
— Libba Bray, The Diviners
All the habits of Man are evil. And above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.
— George Orwell
God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.
— Anne Rice
Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing--with wave lengths, just as sound and light have. An evil place can, so to speak, broadcast vibrations of evil.
— Richard Connell
Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.
— Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants
Good and evil are (only) labels that man—through religion and philosophy—created to explain and judge the Universe’s natural cycle of creation and destruction. Creation was deemed good and destruction was deemed evil.
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
If a lion kills a gazelle, the Universe does not judge the lion as evil and the gazelle as good. The energy and matter of the gazelle is transferred to the lion. Because we are all connected as one, what appears to be death is in fact transformation and rebirth.
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
All good Heroes are scared, if they know the evil they face.
— April Genevieve Tucholke, Wink Poppy Midnight
The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
— Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The state, then, is the very institution that puts socialism into action; and as socialism rests on aggressive violence directed against innocent victims, aggressive violence is the nature of any state.
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe, A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics
Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all
— Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
...I am talking about evil.It blooms.It eats.It grins.
— Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God
The opportunity for evil in itself does not suffice; people need a rationale as well. Consider how unpleasant, how awkward it must be when your neighbor, catching his breath (and that can happen anytime), screams, 'Why?' - or, 'Aren't you ashamed?!' It's embarrassing to stand there without a ready answer. A crowbar makes a poor rebuttal, everybody senses that. The whole trick lies in having the proper grounds to brush aside such aggravating objections. Contemptuously. Everyone wants to commit a villainy without having to feel like a villain.
— Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit.
— Brian K. Vaughan
Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as in Nazi (National Socialist) Germany. The degree of socialization may be total, as in Russia—or partial, as in England. Theoretically, the differences are superficial; practically, they are only a matter of time. The basic principle, in all cases, is the same.
— Ayn Rand
I am. That has not changed. I am the villain. I am the one you should curse, not praise. I am no hero. Heroes look to fix what lies before them and head home after the leak is patched. A villain will remain poking and prodding his achievement long after they've won. Evil never sleeps. It's always looking for more ways to expand on its conquest.
— Charles   Lee, The Way To Dawn: Apocryphal
There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is merely democratic absolute monarchy—that is, a system of absolutism without a fixed head, open to seizure of power by all corners, by any ruthless climber, opportunist, adventurer, demagogue or thug.
— Ayn Rand
We had firsthand witnessed the ethereal evil of crushing hope just when it had peaked—like an open door, visible to you as you approach it from miles away, just closing on you when you have only two more yards to go.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Evil things you do to others show your personality and thus identify you, and the good ones come back to you too… - Cocoy McCoy -
— Cocoy McCoy
Good Samaritan is only good when they think no one else will be the Good Samaritan.
— Vann Chow
Life has been full of evil, and if you don't start asking the right questions, the evil is going to be the end of you.
— Jessica Sorensen, Untamed
I will erase this world of yours with such magnificence of my presence that your vision will remain no more, your eyes fading to darkness and your soul barren before me, in my grasp that I shall corrupt to a slave of mine.
— Saim Cheeda
Books allow us to escape from the pressures of modern life. By far, the best vehicles of escape are Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy genre allowing us to lose ourselves in worlds far away from the reality we know. This escapism works because we totally immerse ourselves and:-We become the hero or heroine. We are the ones who thwart evil. We laugh as we socialise with characters we have never met but feel they are as close as our family. We cry when we lose a good friend.
— Peter   Graham
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.
— Robert Higgs
Although terrifying, the evil ghost will probably pose no real danger to you or your family. On the other hand, if you have a demonic infestation, your entire household is in very real danger. A demonic entity will not usually confront you or induce you to flee the home. Because, unlike the evil ghost, the demon does not actually want you to leave. On the contrary, it wants you to stick around so it can destroy your life and sully your soul from the inside.
— Alexei Maxim Russell, The New Homeowner's Guide to House Spirits
Collectivism is the "philosophy" of every cockroach and sewer rat: "If I want it, I must need it, and if I need it, I have a right to it, and if I have a right to it, it doesn't matter what I have to do to get it." Thefact that such an inherently animalistic, short-sighted, anti-humanviewpoint is now painted by some as compassionate and "progressive" does not make it any more sane, or any less dangerous.
— Larken Rose
Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of the initiation of physical force by the government, or with the sanction of the government. Monopoly exists insofar as the freedom of competition is violated, with the freedom of competition being understood as the absence of the initiation of physical force as the preventive of competition. Where there is no initiation of physical force to violate the freedom of competition, there is no monopoly. The freedom of competition is violated only insofar as individuals are excluded from markets or parts of markets by means of the initiation of physical force. Monopoly is thus a market or part of a market reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of the initiation of physical force. It is thus something imposed upon the market from without—by the government. (Private individuals—gangsters—can initiate force to reserve markets only if the government allows it and thereby sanctions it.)Thus, monopoly is not something which emerges from the normal operation of the economic system, and which the government must control.
— George Reisman
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
— Sophocles
Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy," which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".
— Larken Rose
Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds
— Munia Khan
Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again.
— Karen Traviss, City of Pearl
Evil is there, out there and in your faces! You have two choices, either run or fight! To run is to die a coward! To fight is to win!
— Stephen Richards, Insanity: My Mad Life
If evil lingers around you, it will rub off on you, it will cause stress, anxiety and a lot of mental anguish! ‘Eyes’ - you can see evil in the eye of the beholder! Body! Talk! Stance! Walk! Posture! Evil oozes out!
— Stephen Richards, Insanity: My Mad Life
Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.
— Murray N. Rothbard
State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If you do not understand the Golden Rule, which is the most important law in the universe, then you are in trouble. All other rules in your holy books combined — are not as valuable as the ONE Golden Rule. Take two minutes to learn the most crucial law in life. Killing another human comes with the highest penalty, regardless of how you justify it. All life is sacred.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?"I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up.
— Richard Paul Evans