Evil Quotes

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher

Good, Others, Individual

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Richard Cecil

Life, Good, Best

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Victor Hugo

Mistrust, Rejoice

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Charles Spurgeon

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell

Good, Forget, Through

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
P. J. O'Rourke

Religion, Good, Morning

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.
Billy Graham

Except, Explain

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard

Good, True, Rather

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Powerful, Heart, Human

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
George Orwell

Good, Hell, Heaven

The greatest evil is physical pain.
Saint Augustine

Pain, Greatest, Physical

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric Hoffer

Greatest, Ugly, Emptiness

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Carl Jung

Cannot, Others, Fact

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Victor Hugo

Thoughts, Escape, Efforts

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

Person, May, Others

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud

Dreams, Dream, Inspired

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing, Before, Foolish

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Jung

Help, Darkness, Cure

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom, Real, Suffering

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Person, Through, Light

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
Frank A. Clark

Truth, Gossip, Around

There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you.
Neil Cavuto

Bad, Nothing, Everything

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake

Good, Active, Passive

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine

Good, Beginning, Works

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

Become, Mine, Subject

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Eric Hoffer

Mind, Person, Believes

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Women, Live, Humanity

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine

Good, God, Bring

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