Evil Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

— Sallust

One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

— Plato

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience…

— Charles Wagner

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness,…

— Samuel Johnson

No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage…

— Benjamin Haydon

“An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the…

— Raheel Farooq

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they…

— Christopher Dawson

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

— Sallust

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he…

— Henry Fielding

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts…

— Eric Hoffer