Quotes about Evil
Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.
— Joseph Wirthlin
I was Satan's right hand man.
— Nigel Benn
COKANE [looking compassionately at him] Ah, my dear fellow, the love of money is the root of all evil. LICKCHEESE. Yes, sir; and we'd all like to have the tree growing in our garden.
— George Bernard Shaw
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
— George Eliot
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
— George Eliot
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of divine power against evil- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle woth darkness narrower.
— George Eliot
But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me...That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil--widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
— George Eliot
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of divine power against evil- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
— George Eliot
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil—widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
— George Eliot
The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.
— George Eliot
We prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil which gradually determines character.
— George Eliot
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
— Soren Kierkegaard