Evil Quotes

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

George Washington

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France

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

Thomas Hardy

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Max Born

I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Rod Serling

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Charles Baudelaire

The best known evil is the most tolerable.

Titus Livy

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary, men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Henry David Thoreau

A church debt is the devil's salary.

Henry Ward Beecher

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Hesiod

The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.

Barrows Dunham

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

Samuel Butler

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

Titus Maccius Plautus