E Quotes
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“Evil people want to look good to others. They also want to appear good in their own eyes, so the pangs of shame and self-reproach do not penetrate their hearts.”
Source: The Emotionally Destructive Relationship: Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It
“Evil people want you to accept and believe that they are telling you the truth.
But their truth is not the real truth; it is lies and stories they fabricated to make you believe or behave the way they want you to.
They are good at manipulation and playing a victim card.”
“Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.”
“Evil perpetually tends to disappear.”
Source: Social Statics: Great Essays
“Evil person causes harm even if treated will.”
“Evil plays on our fears. But when it comes to fighting evil, God never plays.”
“Evil possessed myriad faces, and some of them were open and genuine.
Whilst others, like Bauchelain’s, revealed nothing, nothing at all.
Imid could not decide which of the two was more frightening.”
Source: Bauchelain and Korbal Broach
“Evil prevails when good men fail to act.”
“Evil prevails when good people do nothing.”
Source: 1,001 Pearls of Teachers' Wisdom: Quotations on Life and Learning
“Evil prospers when good men do nothing.”
“Evil” read backwards is “live.” Demon est deus inversus.”
Source: Does It Matter?
“Evil report carries further than any applause.”
“Evil requires no reason.”
Source: The Library at Night
“Evil requires the sanction of the victim.”
“Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.”
“Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will”
“Evil's something you can decide to do every day, and it gets easier every time. But the more good you bring into the world, maybe the more the rest of the world would look like this. Like paradise.”
Source: A Million Junes
“Evil should not be, Detective Vera. Truly never can be. But in defining it as such, an inherent human bond with negativity confirms its very existence. Its mere acknowledgement cancels its credibility. Evil is nothing—the lack of anything of substance— made concrete as a balance to everything else. Evil is not, yet it is a part of
each human, because humans welcome its participation in their lives. They speak of it in anger or disgust, fear or even wonder— the most appropriate response— giving it a stronger foundation with every passing thought it distorts. Though within their pliable minds, they welcome it with the glee of the ignorant, nurturing the unthinkable, thinking the unimaginable, imagining the most horrid, abysmal designs, embellishing them with an insidious veracity until evil is as substantial a reality as their next breath. I strive for something else, beyond evil’s claustrophobic clutches. I strive to transcend evil by becoming pure nothing. I strive as my followers strived.” He paused, his ideology a cancer, spreading… “I am, yet I strive to not be. Do you understand, comrade?” His tone suggested fellowship, disciples of the same obscene religion. ...”
Source: Autumn in the Abyss
“Evil so often hides in plain sight, under endless speeches and bureaucratic red tape most people don’t have the energy to wade through.”
Source: Truly Madly Magically
“Evil societies always kill their consciences.”
“evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.”
Source: An Unofficial Rose: A Novel
“Evil sorcerers always looked evil - at least in the Disney versions.
This was not Disney.”
Source: The Source of Magic
“Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.”
“Evil speaks in lies.
And the good know only one truth. But it's a lie, because there's always more than one truth”
Source: Reaper's Gale
“Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.”
“Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.”
Source: Monarchs and Mendicants
“Evil succeeds when good men do nothing”
“Evil surrounding can destroy a Good soul.”
“Evil takes only prisoners….Time takes none."
From The Tenth, chapter 28.”
“Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis heroin dependency.”
“Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.”
Source: The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence
“Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural world rather than the God who made them. The result is that the cosmos is out of joint. Instead of humans being God's wise vice-regents over creation, they ignore the creator and try to worship something less demanding, something that will give them a short-term fix of power or pleasure.”
Source: Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
“Evil then results from imperfection.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Evil thenceforth became my good.”
Source: Frankenstein
“Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.”
Source: The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit
“Evil things wear the prettiest masks.”
Source: The Ghosts of Ravencrest
“Evil things you do to others show your personality and thus identify you, and the good ones come back to you too… - Cocoy McCoy -”
“Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.”
Source: Weeds: A Story in Seven Chapters
“Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.”
“Evil thoughts, evil action.”
“Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.”
“Evil thrives on dominance and supremacy. Without dominance and supremacy, evil cannot survive.”
“Evil Tinkerbell has come to kill me because I didn't clap. I'm a bad person and I deserve to die.”
Source: Swipe Right for Murder
“Evil to him who evil thinks.”
“Evil to some is always good to others”
Source: Emma: A Novel
“Evil tongues never want a whet.”
Source: The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
“Evil travels—like all energy, it transfers between people and objects; it moves, gets stored, moves again. But where did it originate? When Eve ate the apple? Or before that, with Satan, that fallen seraph who took the form of a snake and whispered with slithering tongue into her ear? Did she birth it or was it thrust upon us by some insufflating malefic serpent? Is it man-made or a supernatural force?”
Source: In Limbo
“Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...”
Source: Deeply Odd
“Evil tries to hide, like God.”
Source: A Danger to God Himself