Evil Quotes - Page 3

• It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

  Eric Hoffer

  Power, Promise, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Fields, Good And Evil

  10 Copy quote

• Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Truth, Unconditional Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.84, Beacon Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, People, World

  8 Copy quote

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Fall, Learning

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

  110 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Men, Evil People

  Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 4 (1911)

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

  57 Copy quote

• It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Men, Vengeance

  10 Copy quote

• True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone.

  Richard C. Edgley

  Inspirational, Stand Alone, True Courage

  21 Copy quote

• Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

  Aesop

  Mean, Benefits, Increase

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.33, Lulu.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Work, Avoided

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Ayn Rand

  Giving, World, Sanctions

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1006, Penguin

  22 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  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.

  John Stuart Mill

  Life, Accountability, Political

  John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom”, p.110, Taylor & Francis

  136 Copy quote

  Show source

• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Forgiveness

  225 Copy quote

• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Physical Pain

  Soliloquies I.21

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ignorance: the root of all evil.

  Plato

  Ignorance, Roots

  14 Copy quote

• One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Educational, Men

  1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Peace, Emo

  "The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Thinking", 1978.

  194 Copy quote

  Show source

• One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Wisdom, Hatred

  14 Copy quote

• If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

  Epicurus

  God, Prayer, Humility

  117 Copy quote

• ... moral evil is its own curse.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Moral, Curse, Moral Evil

  Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Discourses on the Christian revelation, viewed in connection with the modern astronomy: To which are added, Discourses illustrative of the connection between theology & general science”, p.328

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Bears, Action, Should

  21 Copy quote

• Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

  William Blake

  Thought Provoking, Passive, Active

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.127, Pearson Education

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

  Raisa Gorbacheva

  Lying, Hypocrisy, Intolerance

  19 Copy quote

• Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Motivational, Force, Good Against Evil

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.222, Xist Publishing

  36 Copy quote

  Show source