E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Evil is a choice one makes, not a natural state of being.”
Source: Rebel Spring
“Evil is a coal: if it does not burn, it blackens. (Le mal est un charbon: s'il ne brûle pas, il noircit)”
“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“Evil is a convenient fiction.”
Source: Shadowland
“Evil is a disease able to spread from one person to another, as each convinces the other that might makes right, moral short-cuts are good things, and your enemies are not human but other”
Source: 99 Gods: Betrayer
“Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.”
Source: The William James Reader
“Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.”
“Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.”
Source: Review of The Shadow of Dante
“Evil is a fiction. Results are what matter." ~Grist”
Source: Monsters & Mind Games
“Evil is a form of incompetence.”
“Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.”
“Evil is a mystery, a scandal and it will always be so.”
Source: Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
“Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately ... for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.”
“Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“Evil is a point of view.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire: A Novel
“Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.”
“Evil is a shadow; it only follows the light.”
“Evil is a sickness. If you treat it, you can cure it. There is no sickness that you cannot cure. If you think there is one, it is through ignorance; never make ignorance your permanent abode.”
Source: Me grandad 'ad an elephant : three stories of Muslim life in south India
“Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.”
“Evil is a superficial manifestation of a deep disturbance and imbalance in our collective psyche. The only way for us to help heal the wounds is to be sober, sane, quiet, loving, and attentive to each other.”
“Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.”
“Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the weak. The Dark Side is about survival. It's about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual.”
Source: Rule of Two
“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”
Source: The Shack
“Evil is abstract but existent. It's a negativity: untruth, dishonesty, abuse of trust. Evil, for us, isn't in-built - into people, into the cosmic scheme, but is a violation.”
Source: Against Walls
“evil is, after all, only a deficiency of goodness.”
Source: A Nun in the Closet
“Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.”
Source: The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition
“Evil is always among us. It is our default state and will never die. The righteous must be vigilant, or evil will conquer and ultimately destroy humanity and enslave us all.”
“Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.”
“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.”
“Evil is always with us. The balance is all.”
Source: The Oracle's Queen
“Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.”
“Evil is an enemy.”
“Evil is an error.”
“Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.”
“Evil is an incurable disease, and some people were just born with it - passed down through generations. It's in their DNA”
“Evil" is an inverted anagram of "live." As we live our life, learn to tame our own private demons and conquer evil with a good, pure, humble, courageous, patient heart.”
“Evil is ancient, unchanging, and with us always. The more postmodern the West becomes — affluent, leisured, nursed on moral equivalence, utopian pacifism, and multicultural relativism — the more premodern the evil among us seems to arise in nihilistic response.”
“Evil is anything that goes against life, harms life, stifles life, destroys life. Evil is bringing harm to another person, inflicting unnecessary pain, suffering, or confusion. All evil comes from this. This is the root of all evil.”
Source: Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
“Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that.”
“Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It's easy to understand why people do bad things. It's like "Yeah, okay, you're selfish and scared and cruel, I get it." Being good is complex and beautiful and hard.”
“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.”
“Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.”
“Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.”
“Evil is dull, that is the worst of it.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings
“Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.”
Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
“Evil is easy, it is what we are born with. Good, on the other hand is hard. It requires us to reach for our greater glory. It takes work and discipline. It is what separates heroes from everyone else.”
“Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom...that is very hard indeed.”
“Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.”
Source: Thoughts