Evil Quotes
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
Dennis Prager
You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.
Louis Farrakhan
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
Judith Light
I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.
Drew Curtis
You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
Rachel Bilson
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. Bradley
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
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
He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it.
Rosario Dawson
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Peace Pilgrim
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
Christopher Plummer
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Bodhidharma
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Epicurus
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