Evil Quotes

And empty words are evil.

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

Well, that's an evil smile...

The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell.

Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly.

The world turns and the world changes,
But one thing does not change.
In all of my years, one thing does not change,
However you disguise it, this thing does not change:
The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.

Some selfish people rise because some kind people haven't learned the art of saying no to them.

Take good care of your final word. If your final say will hunt you in day's ahead, then hold back the words, and let silence speak.

Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God is clothed; let me be following the devil at the same time, but still I am also your son, Lord, and I love you, and I feel a joy without which the world cannot stand and be.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.