Evil Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
Mary Wollstonecraft

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen King

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault

People who say that money is the root of all evil don’t have any.
Anonymous

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Samuel Butler

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
Ayn Rand

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.
Anonymous

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
Maria Weston Chapman

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus

What’s true of all the evils in the world is … it helps men to rise above themselves.
Albert Camus

What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
Henry Ford

Evil to him who evil thinks.
King Edward the Third

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.
Mairead Maguire

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Max Born

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Henry Brooks Adam

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
Edward George Earle Lytton

Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don’t.
Proverb

The fearsome word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
Hannah Arendt

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James Baldwin

Evil draws men together.
Aristotle

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King, jr.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Gustav Jung