Evil Quotes

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Give, Enough

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim Morrison

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato

Ignorance, Stem, Root

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao Tzu

Good, Either, Nor

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alike, Wave, Washes

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Aristotle

Taken, Eye, Notice

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher

Politics, Good, End

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus

Good, Ignorance, May

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Songs, Russians

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Ayn Rand

Life, Money, Run

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Ayn Rand

Two, Wrong, Side

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Good, Done

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Best, Bad, Woman

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Judge, Another, Conscience

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert Kennedy

Dangerous, Cause, Extreme

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Avoid, Beginnings

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle

Men, Fear, Rather

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Socrates

Him, Injustice, Return

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

Life, Good, Death

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw

Money, Lack, Root

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Ayn Rand

Money, Asked, Root

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
Michael Jackson

Love, Money, Power

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom, Oneself, Refusal

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Jerry Garcia

Two, Choosing, Evils

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Good, Hatred, Works

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian

Life, Friendship, Good

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato

Learning, Ignorance, Greatest

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus

Reality, Cannot, Virtue

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

Best, Government, Society

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Theodore Roosevelt

Ground, Expedience, Justified

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