Evil Quotes · Page 91

“Evil is never done so thoroughly or so well as when it is done with a good conscience.”

— Blaise Pascal

Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.

— Erin Hunter

As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine.

— Sigourney Weaver

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

— Abu Bakr

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

— Samuel Johnson

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

— George Santayana

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

— Proverb

Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.

— Woody Allen

“Evil people want to look good to others. They also want to appear good in their own eyes, so the pangs of…

— Leslie Vernick

Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.

— Joni Mitchell

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.

— Elaine Pagels

I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring…

— Harry Bridges

It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad…

— Kate Constable

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world…

— Anonymous

I'm done trying to be nice. If I'm constantly get labeled as the evil one anyway, at least let me play the…

— Anonymous

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a…

— Charles Bukowski

“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility…

— John Simon

Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the…

— David Hume

I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves…

— Ani DiFranco

We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil,…

— George Orwell

“Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory…

— Maximus the Confessor

We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is…

— Jerome Flynn

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

— Sophocles

This world is a cycle! What ever evil you do on to others, will come back to hunt you!!

— Glen Rambharack

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

— Ayn Rand

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

— Henry David Thoreau

“People living for Satan create evil in their normal day.”

— Paula Dickerson

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

— Ronald Reagan

“Love permeates all and energizes life. Even evil has love. If not, she is dead.”

— Toba Beta

Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

— Gautama Buddha

“It seems it doesn't pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil.”

— Anthony Liccione

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

— Carl Jung

There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

— Evangeline Lilly

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

— E. M. Forster

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

— Howard Dean

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

— Ovid

Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

— Thomas a Kempis

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

— Milan Kundera