60+ Best Evil Quotes: Exclusive Selection

The meaning of “evil” has become increasingly unsettled even as it has narrowed, yet the word has proven to be an unshakable unit in our moral. Profoundly inspirational evil quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.

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Famous Evil Quotes

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I could never allow him to be used for such evil. Stephen Sommers

The conflict between good and evil is part of the fabric of existence. Mark Edward Edens

Evil doesn’t always look evil. Sometimes it’s staring right at us, and we don’t even realize it. Edward Kitsis

I believe there are evil acts, but those are choices – brain chemistry. Jeff Davis

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke

Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth. Gene Roddenberry

That’s ridiculous. What’s evil is evil. Anyone who says otherwise is just stupid. Mark O’Green

When it comes to evil, if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Ivan Raimi

If it were easier to choose to do the right thing, wouldn’t people be more likely to do it? Robert Alan Silverstein

inspirational evil quotes

Evil is a metaphysical condition. Geraint Wyn Davies

The greatest evil is physical pain. Saint Aurelius Augustinus Augustine

The evils we do to others give us less pain than those we do to ourselves. Francois de la Rochefoucauld

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. Josef Stalin

Good will never succumb to evil! Jules Bass

Where innocence is greatest, evil is nearest. Ingmar Bergman

Lesser evil stops greater evil every single time. David Wolstencroft

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. Aristotle

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. Martin Luther King Jr. 

Death is the solution to all problems. No man? No problem. Joseph Stalin 

Evil, begets evil. Robert Dean Klein

best evil quotes

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. Saint Ambrose

We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts. Cesare Pavese

Destroy all that which is evil. Troy Duffy

Such is the nature of evil, in time all foul things come forth! Fran Walsh

We must as second best…take the least of the evils. Aristotle

Evil isn’t born, dearie, it’s made. Edward Kitsis

I shall profit by your knowledge. And good will come of it, not evil. Ingmar Bergman

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it conscientiously Pascal

Evil is just destructive? Storms are evil, if it’s that simple. Bryan Fuller

There are two kinds of evil people in this world. Those who do evil stuff and those who see evil stuff being done and don’t try to stop it. Rosalind Wiseman

Adventures! In which good triumphs over evil! J.M. Barrie

quotes about evil

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways. Buddha

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. Albert Camus

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. Ayn Rand

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies. Seneca

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell Oscar Wilde

Evil is in your heart, if you don’t go out, you’ll never get away from it. Frank Cottrell Boyce

Evil is for evil’s sake, period. Its goal is – chaos and destruction. John Masius

Within each of us lies conflicting forces: yin and yang, light and dark, good and evil. Jackie Chan

Some concepts, though they may seem simple, are the most difficult, especially those that pertain to the powers of good and evil. Shôtarô Ishinomori

Short Evil Quotes

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.  Sophocles

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. W. H. Auden

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter. Sophocles

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. Kim Il-Sung

The greatest happiness is to be just. It is such a great gift that those who commit evil deeds are insane. Roberto Rossellini

The devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. Unkown

You must help me. A great evil is taking over the city and shall consume the entire earth if not stopped. Sam Raimi

Evil is when good gets completely screwed up! Evil is when brave people can’t be brave anymore! Evil is an anagram of vile! There’s got to be a moral standard somewhere! Mark O’Green

Good and evil, there never is one without the other. Thomas Malory

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

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. AlbertCamus

A wisp of evil can lure the vulnerable into a miasma of wickedness. Michael Shaw

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. Benjamin Banneker

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. Albert Einstein

The struggle between good and evil goes on inside of everyone. Glen MacDonough

I don’t want to be evil, and stealing is evil. Adolfo Torres Portillo

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done. Leonardo da Vinci

Evil is a spiritual being, alive and living, perverted and perverting, weaving its way insidiously into the very fabric of life. William Goodhart

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Aristotle

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil. Hannah Arendt