evil nature Quotes

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.

Being evil is something that only humans are capable of.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Whoever desires to found a nation and give it laws must begin by assuming that all men are bad and always ready to display their evil nature.

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

There’s something about her—Cassel, I have met many evil men and women in my life. I have made deals with them, drank with them. I have done things that I myself have difficulty reconciling—terrible things. But I have never known anyone like your mother. She is a person without limits—or if she has any, she hasn’t found them yet. She never needs to reconcile anything.

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

Evil requires no reason.

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.