Evil Quotes

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

There are horrors beyond life’s edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man’s evil prying calls them just within our range.

He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.[Chi no puniscie il male, co māda che si facci.]

All the evil in life, it seems to me, comes from idleness, boredom, and spiritual emptiness, and all this is inevitable when one is accustomed to living at other people’s expense.[В жизни всё зло, мне кажется, от праздности, от скуки, от душевной пустоты, а всё это неизбежно, когда привыкаешь жить на счет других.]

You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy.

We read in Rabelais of how the Devil took to flight when the woman showed him her vulva.

War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.[Es gibt nichts anderes als eine geistige Welt; was wir sinnliche Welt nennen, ist das Böse in der geistigen, und was wir böse nennen, ist nur eine Notwendigkeit eines Augenblicks unserer ewigen Entwicklung.]

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.[Die Hintergedanken, mit denen du das Böse in dir aufnimmst, sind nicht die deinen, sondern die des Bösen.]

The mediation by the serpent was necessary: Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.[Es bedurfte der Vermittlung der Schlange: das Böse kann den Menschen verfuhren, aber nicht Mensch werden.]

Some men have a necessity to be mean as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.