Evil Quotes - page 2

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. (Thomas Jefferson)
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. View quote
George Eliot
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. View quote
Steven Weinberg
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. View quote
Norman Mailer
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. View quote
Anne Rice
Lack of money is the root of all evil. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. View quote
Emil Cioran
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. View quote
William Cobbett
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. View quote
Jimmy Carter
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. (Abbie Hoffman)
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. View quote
John Cheever
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. View quote
F. H. Bradley
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. View quote
Jonathan Swift
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. View quote
Hesiod
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. View quote
Heinrich Heine
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. View quote
André Gide
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Yes, this is what is good: to forgive evil. There is no other good. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. (Augustine of Hippo)
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' View quote
Immanuel Kant
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil. View quote
Antisthenes