Evil Quotes

55 quotations about Evil
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Aristotle · Evil
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden · Evil
Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]
Bible · Evil
No evil shall happen to the just.
Bible · Evil
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.
Bible · Evil
Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.
Bischer · Evil
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha · Evil
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke · Evil
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
William S. Burroughs · Evil
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Evil
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-
George Carlin · Evil
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
Thomas Carlyle · Evil
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
Maria Weston Chapman · Evil
To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
Claudius · Evil
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
Pierre Corneille · Evil
The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley · Evil
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles R. Darwin · Evil
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
John Donne · Evil
Evil be to him who evil thinks.
Edward II · Evil
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
George Eliot · Evil
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar Gracian · Evil
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Benjamin Haydon · Evil
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
Ernest Hemingway · Evil
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffer · Evil
But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!
Thomas Hood · Evil

Authors on Evil

American Proverb Aristotle W. H. Auden Bible Bischer Buddha Edmund Burke William S. Burroughs George Carlin Thomas Carlyle Maria Weston Chapman Claudius Pierre Corneille Aleister Crowley Charles R. Darwin John Donne Edward II George Eliot Ethiopian Proverb Baltasar Gracian