Evil Quotes · Page 60

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

— Plato

“Evil is inevitable,' Reuben quoted, 'in the course of a creation which develops with time.”

— Rice Anne

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

— Thomas Paine

“You can find evil in anything if you look hard enough.”

— Russ Mapes

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

— Washington Irving

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

— Sappho

I very much see 'Resident Evil' as my franchise that I kicked, screaming, into life.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

“And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.”

— Ryū Murakami

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict…

— Anonymous

Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.

— James A. Haught

In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and…

— Jim Goad

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow…

— Stephen King

“why is most of the evil of this world the work of men? I suppose there are a few evil women, but…

— Rod Collins

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

— Samuel Johnson

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.

— Timothy Noah

How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral…

— Ted Dekker

The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil…

— Rumi

“I have a very simple morality: not to do good or evil to anyone. Not to do evil, because it seems only…

— Fernando Pessoa

“All we Karamazovs are such insects. And angel as you are, that insect lives in you, too, and will stir up a…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“What you must first understand is the very nature of the Verity. Humans have a tendency for darkness and light. To choose…

— Sara Ella

I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national…

— Anonymous

Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of…

— Howard Zinn

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Whatever else you do or forbear, impose upon yourself the task of happiness; and now and then abandon yourself to the joy…

— Max Ehrmann

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

— Jim McKay

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people.

— Zedd

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

— George Washington

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

— David

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

— Martin Van Buren

Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.

— Pope Francis

Good loses. Good always loses because good has to play fair. Evil doesn't.

— Once Upon A Time

Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.

— Lord Alfred Douglas

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

— Tertullian

“There is no good that cannot produce evil and no evil that cannot produce good.”

— Carl Jung

..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

— Jeanette Winterson

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.

— Charles Spurgeon

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

— Aristotle

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

— Jeremy Bentham