Noun
a spirit tending to cause harm
Source: WordNetIt is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. Albert Einstein
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Swami Vivekananda
You are my evil spirit... you and the hard course world! Nathaniel Hawthorne
The evil spirit of love left his soul for a moment, but returned, though with a strange and lurid aspect, bringing with him other and worse spirits than himself-hate, revenge, blood-thirstiness-all merged in and coloured by the excited and fanatic temper of the time. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us. Martin Luther
The evil spirit of a man is a man. Swahili Proverb