E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Evil is entertained by a people entertained to death.”
“Evil is error.”
“Evil is evil.”
“Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name.”
Source: The Eye of Moloch
“Evil is evil. And to remain silent in the face of evil is to partake in it.”
“Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.”
“Evil is in the face of every frat guy that ever raised a beer cup and went "whoooooo!"”
“Evil is international and the fanatic is international and universal. There is no difference between a Muslim fanatic, a Christian fanatic, even a secular fanatic.”
“Evil is invisible enemy.”
“Evil is just a point of view”
“Evil is just . . . so harsh. I prefer ethically unfettered.”
Source: Stones and Finger Bones
“Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.”
“Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.”
“Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.”
Source: The Simone Weil Reader
“Evil is like a fungus. It oozes, spreads and destroys even if it doesn't give an intention to wreak havoc.”
Source: Anatomy of Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals
“Evil is like a shadow. It follows you.”
Source: Homegoing
“Evil is like a Vampire. When you take arms against it and destroy it, you find in the end that you are evil too-that it is living on your own actions.”
“Evil is like billiard balls. All it takes is a little push.”
Source: The South Bend Dart Frog Murders
“Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Evil is limited. One cannot form
A scheme for universal evil.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Evil is maybe lying to God.
Or better, lying to love.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Evil is movement towards void.”
“Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.”
“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.”
Source: Simone Weil
“Evil is never abstract. It is always concrete, always particular and always vested in individuals. To deny monsters as individuals the right to speak, to actually state their case, is perverse - because I want to hear the Devil speak. I like the idea that a point of view can be made by the dark side.”
“Evil is never in a rush. It creeps up slowly. It doesn't hide, but confronts you in broad daylight. It gives decades of warnings, even centuries at times. Time is never the problem when you battle Evil. The problem is the will to fight it.”
Source: The Oath of the Vayuputras
“Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.”
Source: Three Complete Novels
“Evil is no match for Good— but Good must be active.”
“Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.”
Source: The Snowman: Harry Hole 7
“Evil is not an actual substance. It is the absence of good, in the way that darkness is simply the absence of light.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.”
“Evil is not born in us, it’s what we choose to nourish within our souls.
Goodness grows from what we choose to feed within ourselves.”
“Evil is not constrained by ethics.”
“Evil is not destructive of good alone; it also destroys itself”
“Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.”
“Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.”
Source: Identical
“Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.”
“Evil is not man-made. Evil is natural, like the sun rising each morning, the moon revolving around the earth, and the strong eating the weak.
Jeremiah Hobb”
Source: Cult of the Clan
“Evil is not something superhuman, it's something LESS than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man.”
Source: The pale horse
“Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.”
Source: The pale horse
“Evil is not supreme, for it feasts on the weaknesses of men. God gives strength to those who strive to find strength. Always believe, there is more good in the world than evil, and you can help in making sure that goodness prevails over evil.”
Source: Ashwatthama's Redemption: The Rise of Dandak [Paperback] Gunjan Porwal
“Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.”
“Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of inconceivable inhumanity - the sad truth is our possession of an innate proclivity towards indifference, towards deliberate denial of mercy, towards disengaging all that is moral within us. But if that is too dire , let's call it evil. And paint it with fire and venom.”
“Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.”
“Evil is obvious only in retrospect.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Evil is of the devil.”
“Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.”
Source: On Evil
“Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.”
“Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).”
“Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.”