Evil Quotes

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good, Wisdom, Between

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
George Orwell

War, Often, Lesser

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard Dawkins

Good, Design, Nothing

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise Pascal

Since, Full, Illusion

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good, Away, Labor

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal

Human, Room, Sit

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
John Ruskin

Peace, May, Win

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.
Jimmy Carter

Peace, Good, War

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman

Hate, Revenge, Through

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Christopher Dawson

Good, Men, Fight

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Saint Augustine

Free, Though, King

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen King

Good, Goodness, Cost

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead

Good, May, Accept

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
W. Somerset Maugham

Ignore, Universe, Order

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Happiness, Good, Mistakes

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
Dolly Parton

Positive, Person, Negative

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Epictetus

Angry, Present, Whenever

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
Bodhidharma

Good, Blessings, Hardships

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Epictetus

Good, Nothing, Save

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Elie Wiesel

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Abu Bakr

Done, Him, Cursed

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Blaise Pascal

Easy, Infinite, Forms

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Herodotus

Good, Knowledge, Ignorance

There is no possible source of evil except good.
Saint Augustine

Good, Possible, Except

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Great, Nothing

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge

Good, Great, Hope

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot

Love, Effort, Desire

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