No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
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Quotes tagged ‘Evil’
You do not understand me. I do not expect you to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells in all of us….I don’t believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so-called civilized society. I need not look beyond this…
Everybody has got good and evil in them. I’d like to be 100% evil, but I can’t. I’m too easy-going sometimes. Then again, while anger and hate are two things some people can cope with, I cannot. My anger and hate grow to a level that I cannot live comfortably with it. it causes me headaches and stuf…
I am beyond good and evil. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells in us all. That's it.
Fortunately wrong cannot last. Soon or late it must fall back home to Hades, while some compensating good must surely follow.
War is wrong. Conscription is a concomitant of modern war. Thus, conscription for so vast an evil as war is wrong.
Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth…
The most pious man can't stay in peace If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.
For the function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil; whereas, inasmuch as all things morally wrong are evil, trickery prefers the evil to the good.
Just remember if you look in the face of evil, evil's gonna look right back at you.
Despite having considered myself a monster for as long as I can remember, it still comes as a shock when I'm confronted with the depth of evil that exists in this world.
— Scott Buck, Tim Schlattmann, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com
I just know there's something dark in me, and I hide it. I certainly don't talk about it, but it's there—always. This Dark Passenger. And when he's driving, I feel...alive, half-sick with the thrill of complete wrongness. I don't fight him, I don't want to. He's all I've got.
— Melissa Rosenberg, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com
Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth.
Without followers, evil cannot spread.
Just, like, I don't understand 'em. What's their story? They don't want to take over the world, kill their masters, anything interesting. They're not good or evil. They're just hungry for brains. I mean, like, brains.
What is wrong with you? How can you do this? You’re deranged. You’re... You’re... You’re fucking evil... You are a goddamn motherfucking monster! Fucking heartless, sadistic, motherfucking evil cunt! Fuck you, Serena! You are gonna burn in goddamn motherfucking hell, you crazy, evil bitch!
— Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com
There will be pain. There will be suffering. We will be confronted with the most horrific aspects of humanity. We will confront the inhuman. Evil itself. But we will triumph. It is not a war we will lose.
Ken: Well, you know what they say, money is the root of all evil. Tracy: I thought that was just a tagline for my movie, Death Bank...
You're just trying to make me feel sad so you can steal my tears when I cry, but I've got a heart of stone, buddy. I'm evil!
— Tom Herpich, Bert Youn, Forest Cyclops, Ken Osborne, imdb.com
Well evil, sure—but mostly, he's unattractive. And unattractive people are desperate.