The only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger ... We are the origin of all coming evil. Carl Jung
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. Carl Jung
Evolution cannot explain the depth of human evil. Dinesh D’Souza v Christopher Hitches: The God Debate
Don’t Be Evil. Google company slogan
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Early 20th century proverb
He [Aleister Crowley] had so many Masonic degrees he could fill up five pages of a book with them. This guy was probably the most highest-honoured Mason in the world. He styled himself the Wickedest Man in the World. He believed himself to be the Great Beast. And he changed his name to Aleister Crowley so it would add up in both English, Hebrew and Greek Kabbalah as 666. In 1904 Crowley had a communication with an extraterrestrial Being named Ewas and this Being through his wife a kind of channelling type of operation, brought forth a book called The Book of Law ... Crowley proclaimed the end of Christianity and the start of Crowlianity. Crowley taught that the way you could live for ever was by vampiring little children sexually. And he personally bragged of having slaughtered one hundred and fifty male children in one year. This is why he was called the Wickedest man in the world. Bill Schnoebelen
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Socrates
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return. Socrates
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Aristotle
Stories about a Lilith-type character always existed from the first firesides. Lilith takes the mythological space of the evil woman; which is a space that exists in almost every series of mythologies – part of it is the discomfort with sexuality; and part of it is the human imagination creating devils, demons, all sorts of difficulties to explain evil in the world. Rabbi David Wolpe
Bible: According to some critics, as great a source for evil as for good. Melvyn Bragg, The King James Bible: The Book that Charged the World, BBC 2011
[sings] We will win. We have confidence. In the victory. In Good over Evil [rips picture of Pope]. Fight the real enemy. Sinead O’Connor
The name Charles Manson would become synonymous with evil. Born to Kill? The Manson Family, Channel 5 2012
Evil prevails. Only the good die young. Infernal Affairs II 2003 starring Anthony Wong & Eric Tsang & Carina Lau & Francis Ng & Edison Chen & Shawn Yeu & Hu Jun & Joe Cheung & Arthur Wong & Teddy Chan et al, directors Andrew Lau & Alan Mak, Inspector Wong
Evil is evil. It’s in us, so deal with it. 22 Bullets 2010 starring Jean Reno & Kad Merad & Richard Berry & Marina Fois & Jean-Pierre Darroussin et al, director Richard Berry, gangsta to Reno
My Father is Evil and Wants to Take Over the World. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 starring Mike Myers & Heather Graham & Michael York & Robert Wagner & Rob Lowe & Mindy Sterling & Seth Green & Verne Troyer & Elizabeth Hurley & Will Ferrell et al, director Jay Roach, Jerry Springer Show
Because you’re not quite evil enough. Well it’s true. You’re quasi-evil. ibid. Dr Evil to Scott
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return. Body of Lies 2008 starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Russell Crowe & Mark Strong & Golshifteh Farahani & Vince Colosimo & Oscar Isaac & Ali Suliman & Alon Aboutboul et al, director Ridley Scott, W H Auden
Spock: Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth.
McCoy: Or by misleading the innocent. Star Trek s3e4: And the Children Shall Lead
Without followers evil cannot spread. ibid. Spock
Sometimes Life seems so complicated. Nothing is truly good or truly evil. Everything seems to be a shade of grey. And then you spend some time with a man like Gul Dukat and you realise that there is such a thing as truly evil. I’ll tell you what I’m not going to do: I’m not going to let him destroy Bajor. I fear no evil. From now on, it’s him or me. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s6e11: Waltz, Sisko to Dax
Frightened of the truth: that darkness is more fundamental than light; cruelty before kindness; evil more primary than good, more deserving of existence. Star Trek: Voyager s3e18: Darkling, Doctor to Kes
There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves. Our first instinct is to seek revenge when those we love are taken from us. But that’s not who we are. They’re sending you back to the Academy. Star Trek Into Darkness 2013 starring Chris Pine & Zachary Qunito & Benedict Cumberbatch & Karl Urban & Simon Pegg & John Cho & Zoe Saldana & Anton Yelchin & Bruce Greenwood & Leonard Nimoy et al, director J J Abrams, Kirk
Lesson#9: In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil. Robert S McNamara, The Fog of War, director Errol Morris, music Philip Glass, 2003
Everything we do is inspired by the absolute conviction that a great evil must be removed from the world. Pathé News
Hitler got the war he wanted ... Against Evil, appeasement never works. Edge of War, History 2013
They [Nazis] were evil. It was almost like a nightmare. And it was their voices and the smell of their uniforms ... that haunted me for many many years. Kay le Cheminant
I don’t think anybody will probably actually seriously rival him [Hitler] in the consciousness of being the most evil man we’ve ever seen. Terry Charman
He [Martin Bormann] was the evil spirit of the place because I felt that he was absolutely and thoroughly evil. He always seemed like a noxious toad. Reinhard Spitzy, adjutant to Hitler
Today our nation saw evil. The very worst of human nature. George W Bush
Our war is against evil, not against Islam, or against faith practised by the Muslim people. George W Bush, speech Ontario, California, 5 January 2002
Evil is real. And it must be opposed. George W Bush
The hijackers were instruments of evil. Who died in vain. Behind them is a cult of evil which seeks to harm the innocent and thrives on human suffering. There’s is the worst kind of cruelty. The cruelty that is fed not weakened by tears. There’s is the worst kind of violence. Pure malice while daring to claim the authority of God. We cannot fully understand the designs and power of evil. It is enough to know that evil like goodness exists. And in the terrorist evil has found a willing servant. George W Bush
Capitalism is an evil. And you cannot regulate evil. Michael Moore, Capitalism: A Love Story, 2009
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul. Ursula K Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Once to every man and nation comes a moment do decide,
In the strife of truth and Falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God’s new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever ’twixt that darkness and that light.
Though the cause of evil prosper, yet ’tis truth alone is strong
Though her portions be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. James Russell Lowell