Quotes about evil

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself.

The long, dull monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather.

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

"The man's become inhuman, I tell you," said Kemp. "I am as sure he will establish a reign of terror—so soon as he has got over the emotions of this escape—as I am sure I am talking to you. Our only chance is to be ahead. He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head."

Pandemonium, city and proud seat

Of Lucifer.

Satan; so call him now, his former name

Is heard no more in heaven.

In heavenly spirits could such perverseness dwell?

So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,

The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.

Abashed the Devil stood,

And felt how awful goodness is, and saw

Virtue in her shape how lovely; saw, and pined

His loss.