Evil-Doing Quotes

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

Ideology—that is what gives evil-doing its long-sought justification and gives the evil-doer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and other’s eyes so that he won’t hear reproaches and curses but receive praise and honors.

Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?

Do not follow a multitude to do evil.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

I do prefer playing baddies because you can push being horrible as far as you want.

Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are.

Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.

Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded upon the maxim that every citizen is, by nature, a traitor, a libertine, and a scoundrel. In order to dissuade him from his evil-doing the police power is extended until it surpasses anything ever heard of in the oriental monarchies of antiquity.

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.