Quotes about evil

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

The Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of them. It is he who puts the prices on things.

"You must get to know your personal devil"

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

Good to evil seems evil.

A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: “How could one so beautiful be so base?”

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

Adam glanced up. In one sense there was just clear air overhead. In another, stretching off to infinity, were the hosts of Heaven and Hell, wingtip to wingtip. If you looked really closely, and had been specially trained, you could tell the difference.

Anyway, there isn't any evil here. That's what I don't understand. There's just love.

Most of the members of the convent were old-fashioned Satanists, like their parents and grandparents before them. They'd been brought up to it and weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.