Evil Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 4
Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.
Brian Masters
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
I want to put myself absolutely at your mercy for good or evil without any condition, without any limit to your power.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
The end excuses any evil.
Sophocles
Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil
Evil beginning houres may end in good.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.
Buddha
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato
No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
Martin Van Buren
Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation.
Marcellinus Ammianus
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
Francois De la Rochefoucauld
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Theodore Roosevelt
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
Mae West
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole France
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
Hear no evil, speak no evil – and you’ll never be invited to a party.
Oscar Wilde
The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
Ayn Rand
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Hesiod
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
Evelyn Underhill
In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.
Ernest Becker
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
George Orwell
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Charles Baudelaire
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
W. Somerset Maugham
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