True Evil Quotes:

We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.

- Arno Gruen

topic: Mistake, True Evil, Forgiving

I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

- Jonathan Maberry

source: Jonathan Maberry (2015). “The Joe Ledger Series, Books 1-3: Patient Zero, The Dragon Factory, The King of Plagues”, p.18, St. Martin's Griffin

topic: Character, Men, True Evil, Oreos, Character Flaws

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

- Moby

topic: True Evil, World, Republican

Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Real, Grateful, Men, Individual Rights, Insiders

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

- Euripides

topic: Evil, Faults, Bears, True Evil

Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2441, GENERAL PRESS

topic: Law, Insanity, Want, True Evil

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: True Evil, Harlots

It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: True Evil, Nice Girl, Harlots, Drug Cartels, Cartels

You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.

- Jean Ferris

source: Jean Ferris (2016). “The Tales of Marigold Three Books in One!: Once Upon a Marigold, Twice Upon a Marigold, Thrice Upon a Marigold”, p.543, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Hard Times, Self, Evil, True Evil

Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.

- Walter Mosley

topic: Evil, Mice, Truest, True Evil

But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.

- Caitlin Thomas

topic: Lying, Two, Evil, Demoralizing, True Evil

The world understands that our country could solve all conflicts with military solutions, but we won't because we have leaders and we have a moral responsibility but we have also have a political - we have a political leader who is scared and who is raised on the idea that American force is the true evil.

- Greg Gutfeld

topic: Country, Military, Responsibility, True Evil, Moral Responsibility

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

- Alexandre Dumas-fils

source: Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.24, Penguin

topic: Pride, Vanity, Evil, True Evil

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Time, White, Wrinkles, True Evil, Weakening

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Ideas, Evil, World, True Evil, Blown Away

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Revenge, Intelligent, People, True Evil

Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.

- Gregory of Nazianzus

topic: Real, Adversity, Evil, True Evil

Lord Manu had said it's not people who are evil. True evil exists beyond them. It attracts people. It causes confusion amongst its enemies. But Evil in itself is too big to be confined to to just a few.

- Amish Tripathi

topic: People, Evil, Confusion, True Evil, Amish