Evil Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 5

Evil events from evil causes spring.
Marcellinus Ammianus

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
Aristotle

The evil that we know is best.
Titus Maccius Plautus

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
Edward George Earle Lytton

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
Plutarch

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
Homer

Every temptation is an opportunity to triumph over evil.
Marc Williams

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, jr.

We must as second best…take the least of the evils.
Aristotle

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
George Carlin

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
Emanuel Swedenborg

‘Evil men have no songs.’ How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich Nietzsche

The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato

Of evils one should choose the least.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Evil is just a point of view.
Anne Rice

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
Robert Burton

It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. “They all eat one another!” he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, “They all feed one another,” and called it good.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I think for the most part people are good to start with. I think evil is somethin you bring on your own self. Mostly from wantin what you ain’t supposed to have.
Comrac McCarthy

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.
Epicurus

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb’s bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; they put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Bible

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

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”
Ayn Rand

For every life and every act
Consequence of good and evil can be shown.
And as in time results of many deeds are blended
So good and evil in the end become confounded.
T. S. Eliot

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein

A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad

Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.
Paramahansa Yogananda

If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.
Woody Allen

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