Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

The most wicked thing that the dark side of human nature has ever come up with.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are!

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

Meekness is the mask of malice.

evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

If dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold!