Evil Quotes · Page 91

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

— Benjamin Rush

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

— Robert Baer

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

— Joseph Addison

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

— Abu Bakr

“If it can’t be used for evil, it’s not a superpower.”

— Nir Eyal

I always felt growing up that in the South there was evil but also good - so much good.

— John Lewis

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

— Steve Allen

There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I'm the lesser evil already.

— Alexander Lukashenko

If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do…

— Robertson Davies

The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term.

— Jacob Weisberg

I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.

— Sam Shepard

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to…

— Elie Wiesel

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

— William Ellery Channing

“Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is…

— Max Weber

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

— Brandon Sanderson

Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be…

— Earl Nightingale

All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was…

— George Orwell

“Well, no one says you can be happy about everything," I said. "I know I should be glad for you, Megan, but…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

“I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I’ve ever seen in the history of literature. I have…

— David Brin

It's an American thing, but it's particularly a southern thing, and its romanticization is hyper-Southern. And it's still irresistible to me, even…

— William Gibson

The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really…

— Burhan Sonmez

So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . .…

— Ayn Rand

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

— Hesiod

I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

— Karin Slaughter

I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.

— Nelly Furtado

Violence makes people commit atrocious evil without even realizing it.

— David Dellinger

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

— Brian Eno

“May God deliver us in the day of dark of evil moment.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

— Baltasar Gracian

For the sake of one good action a hundred evil ones should be forgotten

— Chinese Proverbs

“There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.”

— Edward Morgan Forster

“Your evil cannot darken this tale, it was written from the heavens.”

— Christine Zolendz

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

— Anonymous

“Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, And all their ministers attend on him.”

— William Shakespeare

Don't worry because in the end good always triumphs over evil.

— Anonymous

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

— Georges Bataille

If there's a good side of Islam, at the end of the day it serves evil.

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

Evil will befall him who regards not the advice of a benevolent friend.

— Ritu Ghatourey