Evil Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 7

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;
Filths savour but themselves.
William Shakespeare

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all.
Albert Camus

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Barack, like any leader, is human. And, you know, our challenges in this country isn’t finding the next person who’s gonna deliver us from our own evil. Because our challenges are us. The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change? What are we gonna do differently?
Michelle Obama

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Winston Churchill

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
Seneca

If Satan exists, and if he is clever at promoting Evil, then would he not agitate one section of mankind to go to war with an another – both believing God was on their side?
Stephen Paul Lather

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
Stephen Crane

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn

What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ”I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?”
Friedrich Nietzsche

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.
Stephen King

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
Buddha

I think it’s relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn’t cost them anything. It doesn’t keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.
Stephen King

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Evil spelled backward is live.
Anonymous

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Bible: Ecclesiastes

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Leigh Hunt

Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my Good.
John Milton

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
Francis Bacon

She is a smart old broad. It is a pity she is so nefarious.
Damon Runyon

They that know no evil will suspect none.
Ben Jonson

For never, never, wicked man was wise.
Homer

Something nasty in the woodshed.
Stella Gibbons

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
Ayn Rand

And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
William Shakespeare

To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.
Paul Ricoeur

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

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