Evil Quotes
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![Mahatma Gandhi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1356810912i/5810891._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
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![Gregory Maguire](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1319068553i/7025._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
![Albert Einstein](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1429114964i/9810._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
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![Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1574793149i/19771050._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
![Baltasar Gracián](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1423421584i/1026409._UY200_CR8,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
― The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
― The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
![Douglas Preston](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1399043352i/12577._UX200_CR0,19,200,200_.jpg)
“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
― The Monster of Florence
― The Monster of Florence
![Mikhail Bulgakov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651627966i/3873._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
― The Master and Margarita
evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
― The Master and Margarita
![Ursula K. Le Guin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1244291425i/874602._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
![Veronica Roth](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1702319133i/4039811._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
― Allegiant
― Allegiant
![Elizabeth Gaskell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1223499865i/1413437._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
― Wives and Daughters
― Wives and Daughters
![Jim Butcher](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1400640324i/10746.jpg)
“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
― Vignette
― Vignette
![Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.](https://images.gr-assets.com/quotes/1423960410p2/4264.jpg)
“Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.”
― The Lovely Bones
― The Lovely Bones
![Mahatma Gandhi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1356810912i/5810891._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
― The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
― The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
![Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629693671i/3137322._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
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![Machado de Assis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1602797769i/22458._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”
― Iaiá Garcia
― Iaiá Garcia
![Blaise Pascal](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1397937717i/10994._UY200_CR57,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
![Ayn Rand](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1168729178i/432._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.”
― Atlas Shrugged
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.”
― Atlas Shrugged
![Rachel Hawkins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1442494376i/2261547._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Let's just say you may regret that second piece of cake.'
Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil.”
― Hex Hall
Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil.”
― Hex Hall
![J.K. Rowling](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1596216614i/1077326._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater—'
'She's foul enough to be one…'
'Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters', said Sirius with a wry smile. 'I know she’s a nasty piece of work though'.”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
'She's foul enough to be one…'
'Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters', said Sirius with a wry smile. 'I know she’s a nasty piece of work though'.”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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