Quote: No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. Author: W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet
Quote: Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. Author: Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet
Quote: There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. Author: Saul Bellow 1915-, American Novelist
Quote: Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. Author: John Berger 1926-, British Actor, Critic
Quote: No evil shall happen to the just. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad. Author: Bischer
Quote: The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. Author: Joseph Brodsky 1940-, Russian-born American Poet, Critic
Quote: There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. Author: Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism
Quote: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Author: Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman
Quote: The face of evil is always the face of total need. Author: William S. Burroughs 1914-1997, American Writer
Quote: Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will. Author: Eric Butterworth
Quote: May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.- Author: George Carlin American Stage and Television Comedian
Quote: All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come. Author: Maria Weston Chapman
Quote: Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. Author: E. M. Cioran 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher
Quote: To do no evil is good, to intend none better. Author: Claudius 10 BC-AD 54, Roman Emperor
Quote: The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Author: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist
Quote: All evils are equal when they are extreme. Author: Pierre Corneille 1606-1684, French Dramatist
Quote: The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Author: Aleister Crowley 1875-1947, British Occultist
Quote: I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. Author: Madame Marie Curie 1867-1934, Polish-born French Physicist
Quote: It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. Author: Charles Darwin 1809-1882, British Naturalist
Quote: Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. Author: John Donne 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: Evil be to him who evil thinks. Author: Edward II
Quote: No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist. Author: T. S. Eliot 1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic
Quote: Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s. Author: Desiderius Erasmus c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
Quote: Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it. Author: Baltasar Gracian 1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. Author: Benjamin Haydon 1786-1846, British Artist
Quote: Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. Author: Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961, American Writer
Quote: It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart! Author: Thomas Hood 1799-1845, British Poet and Humorist
Quote: There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: They that know no evil will suspect none. Author: Ben Jonson 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet
Quote: He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. Author: Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964
Quote: There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good. Author: Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont 1846-1870, French Author, Poet
Quote: This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. Author: D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930, British Author
Quote: When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. Author: Max Lerner 1902-, American Author, Columnist
Quote: If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. Author: Joseph De Maistre 1753-1821, French Diplomat, Philosopher
Quote: We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. Author: Joseph De Maistre 1753-1821, French Diplomat, Philosopher
Quote: My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors. Author: Tony Martin
Quote: Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm. Author: Brian Masters
Quote: There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself. Author: Patrick Mcgoohan
Quote: What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet
Quote: Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. Author: Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau 1749-1791, French Revolutionary Politician, Orator
Quote: Evil is easy, and has infinite forms. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you. Author: Phaedrus c.1-?, Macedonian Inventor and Writer
Quote: There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome Author: Proverb
Quote: Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical. Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin
Quote: The love of evil is the root of all money. Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin
Quote: Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. Author: Ethiopian Proverb Sayings of Ethiopian Origin
Quote: Wickedness is its own punishment. Author: Francis Quarles 1592-1644, British Poet
Quote: I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful. Author: Kathleen Raine
Quote: All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered. Author: Sir Walter Raleigh 1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer
Quote: Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. Author: Anne Rice 1941-, American Author, ''Interview with the Vampire''
Quote: Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world. Author: Marquis De Sade 1740-1814, French Author
Quote: No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: There's small choice in rotten apples. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish. Author: Logan Pearsall Smith 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist
Quote: There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: Of two evils, choose neither. Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher
Quote: Evil spelled backward is live. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Quote: What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it. Author: C. J. Weber
Quote: Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror. Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic
Quote: Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. Author: Mae West 1892-1980, American Actress
Quote: When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. Author: Mae West 1892-1980, American Actress
Quote: No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness. Author: Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797, British Feminist Writer
Quote: Evil is only LIVE spelled backwords! Tyler Author: Tyler
Quote: Badness is only spoiled goodness. Author: C.S. Lewis
Quote: The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. Author: Edmund Burke
Quote: There are a thousand at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. Author: Henry David Thoreau
Quote: When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before. Author: Mae West
Quote: Evil will forever reign over good, for the peccable, weak souls of today's youth are for more intelligent than any of us will ever be. Author: Milton Stewart
Quote: The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. Author: Oscar Wilde
Quote: I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. Author: Roberto Rossellini
Quote: Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. Author: Lord Acton
Quote: There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. Author: St. Ambrose
Quote: And therefore the Philosopher [Aristotle] says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the intellect, are in the mind. Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
Quote: Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.... Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
Quote: ...for the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater... Author: Aristotle
Quote: And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state. Author: Aristotle
Quote: Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. Author: St. Augustine
Quote: There is no possible source of evil except good. Author: St. Augustine
Quote: All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. Author: Jeremy Bentham
Quote: Nothing enchants the soul so much as young women. They alone are the cause of evil, and there is no other. Author: Bharitihari
Quote: If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? Author: Boethius
Quote: What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil. Author: Buddha
Quote: The evils of the body are, murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse, and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred, and error. Author: Buddha
Quote: All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind. Author: Buddha
Quote: If the works of God are intelligible to man, if good and evil are what we think they are, a God who is both omnipotent and benevolent is a contradiction. Humanly speaking good and evil are antithetical. Author: Charles P. Curtis
Quote: The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this. Author: Confucius
Quote: He who has really set his mind on virtue will do no evil. Author: Confucius
Quote: I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important....It is the most noble of all the attributes of man. Author: Charles Darwin
Quote: As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil they set out to destroy. Author: Christopher Dawson
Quote: Love of money is the mother of all evils. Author: Diogenes Athe Cynic
Quote: The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Author: Diogenes Laertius
Quote: Evil does not exist at all....Evil in its nature is neither a thing nor does it bring anything forth...All things which are, by the very fact that they are, are good and come from good; but insofar as they are deprived of good, they are neither good nor do they exist. Author: Dionysius The Areopagite
Quote: If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. Author: Epicurus
Quote: The snake stood up for evil in the Garden. Author: Robert Frost
Quote: Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. Author: Anatole France
Quote: Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves; it knows them only as judgments about relationships. Author: Carl Jung
Quote: Today as never before it is important that human beings should not overlook the danger of the evil lurking withing them. It is unfortunately only too real, which is why psychology must insist on the reality of evil and must reject any definition that regards it as insignificant or actually non-existent. Author: Carl Jung
Quote: The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semi-human, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and in the classical sense of the word, Adivine. Author: Carl Jung
Quote: The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. Author: Immanuel Kant
Quote: I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. Author: Konrad Lorenz
Quote: Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. Author: Konrad Lorenz
Quote: Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value. Author: Konrad Lorenz
Quote: We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war. Author: Konrad Lorenz
Quote: Nothing is evil which is according to nature. Author: Marcus Aurelius Antonius
Quote: Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. Author: Menander
Quote: The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. Author: Menander
Quote: Evil is not inherent in nature, it is learned. Author: Ashley Montag
Quote: Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity. Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Quote: The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maintaining the seemingly absurd position that man sins inevitably and by a fateful necessity but that he is nevertheless to be held responsible for actions which are prompted by an ineluctable [inescapable] fate. Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Quote: There is an old illusion-it is called good and evil. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote: The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote: What a time experiences as evil is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good-the atavism of a more ancient ideal. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote: Whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote: Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Author: Blaise Pascal
Quote: If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. Author: Ayn Rand
Quote: Sin is a social force. It runs from man to man along the lines of social contact. Its impact on the individual becomes most overwhelming when sin is most completely socialized. Salvation too, is a social force. It is exerted by groups that are charged with divine will and love...A full salvation demands a Christian social order which will serve as the spiritual environment of the individual. Author: Walter Rauschenbusch
Quote: The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive. Author: Walter Rauschenbusch
Quote: Death must be an Evil - and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever? Author: Sappho
Quote: The problem of evil...Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it? Author: Sir William Temple
Quote: Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. Author: Mark Twain
Quote: The fear of life which is the beginning of all evil.... Author: Rebecca West
Quote: All physical evils are so many beacon lights to warn us from vice! Author: Francis Bowen
Quote: The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man. Author: Albert Einstein
Quote: The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Author: Hannah Arendt
Quote: Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so. Author: Friedrich Hebbel
Quote: No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly. Author: Juvenal
Quote: The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart. Author: Alexandr Solzhenitzyn
Quote: No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Author: Mary Wallstonecraft
Quote: Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. Author: Denis Diderot
Quote: When confronted with two evils, a man will always choose the most attractive. Author: Anonymous
Quote: The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. Author: Virginia Woolf
Quote: We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. Author: Nan Fairbrother
Quote: I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Quote: Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. Author: William Law
Quote: The good thing about bad things is that they end. The bad things about good things is that they also end. Author: Unknown
Quote: I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcomings of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. Author: Helen Keller
Quote: For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent. Author: Plautus
Quote: The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Quote: Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved. Author: George Washington
Quote: The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again. Author: Korman
Quote: Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Author: Oscar Wilde
Quote: I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. Author: Blaise Pascal
Quote: Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes Author: Louisa May Alcott
Quote: If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. Author: Louis Brandeis
Quote: Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. Author: Baltasar Gracian
Quote: No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Quote: A canter is the cure for every evil. Author: Benjamin Disrael
Quote: Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. Author: Richard P. Feynman
Quote: I am treated as evil by those who feel persecuted because they are not allowed to force me to believe as they do. Author: Unknown
Quote: Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it. Author: Shakti Gawain
Quote: Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. Author: Adlai Stevenson
Quote: The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. Author: Lord Acton
Quote: Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand. Author: Bodie Thoene
Quote: If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. Author: Herman Hesse
Quote: The line between good and evil passes not between principalities and powers, but oscillates within the human heart. And even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right. Author: Unknown
Quote: If you have been tempted into evil, fly from it. It is not falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns. Author: Unknown
Quote: There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer. Author: Seneca
Quote: We believe no evil till the evil's done. Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Quote: They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin. Author: Cicero
Quote: Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Author: Thomas Paine
Quote: The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. Author: St. Augustine
Quote: To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift. Author: Aeschylus
Quote: For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will. Author: St. Augustine
Quote: There is no permanent place in [this universe] for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind. Author: Thomas Carlyle
Quote: Even in evil, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see, in suffering and temptation, proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love. Author: William Ellery Channing
Quote: Although it be with truth thou speakest evil, this also is a crime. Author: St. John Chrysostom
Quote: We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling. Author: John Churtom Collins
Quote: We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves. Author: Joseph Francois Eduard Desmahis
Quote: Every evil comes to us on wings and goes away limping. Author: French Proverb
Quote: Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. Author: John Cunningham Geikie
Quote: Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master. Author: Baltasar Gracian y Morales
Quote: Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end. Author: John Newton
Quote: What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness. Author: Frederich Nietzsche
Quote: Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. Author: Robert Southey
Quote: He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil. Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
Quote: Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf. Author: Robert Cecil
Quote: Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Author: Aristotle
Quote: On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends. Author: John Gay
Quote: God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. Author: St. Augustine
Quote: One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. Author: Edmund Burke
Quote: If you cannot hate evil, you cannot love good. Author: Struthers Burt
Quote: It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good. Author: Cicero
Quote: Evil is only good perverted. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quote: Good had but one enemy, the evil; but the evil has two enemies, the good and itself. Author: Johannes von Muller
Quote: Yet those that call evil good and good evil shall one day have their way... and regret it for eternity. Author: Anonymous
Quote: Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil. Author: Benjamin Whichcote
Quote: great evil can reside in a little good Author: aquinas