Quotes about evil

Evil spelled backward is live.

— Source Unknown

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

— Virgil

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

— Voltaire

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

— C. J. Weber

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

— Simone Weil

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

— Mae West

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

— Marcus Aurelius

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

— Bible

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

— Doug Horton

There is no bad in good.

— Doug Horton

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

— Jeremy P. Johnson

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

— Samuel Johnson

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

— William Shakespeare

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

— Socrates

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

— Charles Baudelaire

Satan isn't anything to believe in but there are people running things whose God is Lucifer. Check out the Lucifierian Doctrine which Albert Pike wrote. He said it is given to 29th-33rd rank Masons in his book Morals and Dogma.

— James Dye

He was defeated 2000 years ago though there's many that feel that he is The Lord and that they will succeed.

— James Dye

It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God’s slave, not that of a devil.

— Kedar Joshi

In hell, the Devil is God.

— Kedar Joshi

[There is] a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

— Hannah Arendt

He who dines with the devil had best bring a long spoon.

— Peter Berger

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

— Mae West

“Seek the goodness in everyone, evil will die itself”

— Shah Ishtiaq (Real Scientist)