Evil Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 2



Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The love of evil is the root of all money.
American Proverb

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Mahatma Gandhi

The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil.
Turkish Proverb

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Ethiopian Proverb

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.
Raisa Gorbachev

Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.
Talmud

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.
Anonymous

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Bible

The devil was the first democrat.
Lord Byron

Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
Oliver Goldsmith

He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.
Leonardo da Vinci

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.
Pascal

There is scarcely a single man sufficiently aware to know all the evil he does.
Duc de la Rochefoucauld

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
William James

But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart!
Thomas Hood

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha

All human beings … are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil— a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.
Jane Austen

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
Hesiod

All evils are equal when they are extreme.
Pierre Corneille

Death? Why this fuss about death. Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! … Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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