Evil Quotes

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

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

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Evil brings men together.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

A scoundrel will forever be a scoundrel, no matter which coat he wears.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

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

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.

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.

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

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

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

Evil draws men together.

The end excuses any evil.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Evil to him who evil thinks.
(Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

The evil that we know is best.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.