Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

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

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

No one may do evil that good may come.

The priests, either from indulgence or carelessness, have allowed the wicked to give loose reins to their lusts

… the most depraved wretches on earth.

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

Evil is real.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Evil changes everybody!

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

... a moral skunk .... [who has] debauched America ...

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.