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Quotes about Evil


What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

Henry Ford

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

George Carlin

Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.

George Talmud

It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

H. L. Mencken

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

W. H. Auden

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Charles Baudelaire

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

Albert Einstein

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Albert Buddha

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Samuel Butler

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Maria Weston Chapman

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Pierre Corneille

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

William James

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Ben Jonson

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

D. H. Lawrence

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Brian Masters

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

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

The love of evil is the root of all money.

American Proverb

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Ethiopian Proverb

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Anne Rice

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