The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
I love to play horrible, evil, mean people.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
The greatest evil is physical pain.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Making the leap from Monsanto's business practices - whatever you may think of them - to the 'dangers' of GM foods is a mistake in logical reasoning. It is akin to saying landscape paintings are potentially evil because the painter was a serial killer.
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional debate.
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
