Evil Quotes

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene

Happy, Ignorance, Else

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil

Knowledge, Pain, Mystery

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. Forster

Sense, Writer, Goodness

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
Andre Maurois

Age, True, Feeling

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
Michelangelo

Life, Good, Live

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
James Russell Lowell

Good, Truth, Person

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
Simone de Beauvoir

Art, Attempt, Integrate

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke

Good, Human, Actions

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Good, Men, Government

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
Molly Ivins

Truth, Ignorance, Knows

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
Henry Miller

Enough, Makes, Existence

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Bodhidharma

Mind, Means, Body

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Susan B. Anthony

Women, Men, Divorce

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Jean Paul

Good, Children, Moral

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Mary Todd Lincoln

Genius, Season, Convenient

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Lucretius

Religion, Deeds, Potent

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides

Good, Friend, Ignorant

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Xun Zi

Nature, Human, Goodness

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.
Louis C. K.

Live, Suffering, Ourselves

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori

Good, Child, Lies

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
William Penn

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid

Minds, Corrupt, Prone

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Samuel Butler

Good, Art, Knowledge

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Charles Baudelaire

Art, Effort, Goodness

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
Abu Bakr

Fight, Self, Against

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric Hoffer

Good, Alone, Compassion

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
David Wilkerson

Life, Time, Energy

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Gilbert Parker

Lie, Silence, Speech

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
Patricia Cornwell

Power, Abuse, Root

There is no greater evil than anarchy.
Sophocles

Greater, Anarchy

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