Evil Quotes

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.

Lloyd Chudley Alexander

Evils draw men together.

Aristotle

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man.

Albert Einstein

The problem of evil...Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

Sir William Temple

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Lord Acton

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Edmund Burke

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Marcus Aurelius Antonius

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

John Gay

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Pierre Corneille

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

Henry Ford

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

It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons.

John Christian Bovee

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.

John Ruskin

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection

Samuel Johnson

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander of Athens

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Robert Benchley

It is good to maintain and cherish life; it is evil to destroy and to cheek life

Albert Schweitzer

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon

0 12

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z