EVIL QUOTES XI

quotations about evil

God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.

JOHN GREEN

Looking for Alaska


For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote


The evil you do to others you may expect in return.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus


The wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror men will not speak against it. That men have just enough stomach for small evils and only these will they oppose.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

The Crossing


The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil.

THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO

Minima Moralia


For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong.

PHILIP ZIMBARDO

"You Can't be a Sweet Cucumber in a Vinegar Barrel: A Talk with Philip Zimbardo", Jan. 19, 2005


Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place.

SERGEI LUKYANENKO

Night Watch


The defenders of evil deeds deserve the same punishment as the doers.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims