Evil Quote by Walter Raleigh

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show…

— Walter Raleigh

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

— Walter Raleigh

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

— Anonymous

“History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. Why should you not…

— Elizabeth Kostova

For evil to prevail, all that good men have to do, is nothing.

— Edmund Burke

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are…

— Simon Conway Morris

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other…

— Walter Raleigh

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

— Albert Camus

The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society…

— William Godwin

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“people] can see only the human actors upon the stage of history. Wicked rulers, ruthless dictators, tyrants, oppressors, kings, governments, and presidents are, to…

— Mark Hitchcock