The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Votes: 3
Edmund BurkeHypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child. Votes: 2
Don KingMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Votes: 2
Blaise PascalThere is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us. Votes: 2
Martin Luther King, Jr.There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. Votes: 2
Henry David ThoreauGovernment, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Votes: 2
Thomas PaineA good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. Votes: 2
William PennIf evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. Votes: 2
EpictetusSo you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? Votes: 2
Ayn RandThe sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Votes: 2
Hannah ArendtThe Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he Votes: 1
Francois RabelaisIt is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swintongood and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneEvil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.
Martin Farquhar TupperTo do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynLife is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
Alphonse de LamartineDefinition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.
Anton Szandor LaVeyJudaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil
Christopher HitchensEvery evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.
David W AugsburgerThere is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
Francois de La RochefoucauldEarth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLaws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
Otto von BismarckThose that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
Charles W. ChesnuttIt is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThis is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
Friedrich SchillerWhatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
Friedrich NietzscheSurprise is the tool of the Devil and it is the greatest power of the evil forces!
Mehmet Murat ildanBut all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.
Abolqasem FerdowsiIt is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.
Charles A. ReichThou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxHe who accuses another of being an evil person says so because he is afraid of him.
Muhammad Taqi UsmaniWhen "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.
Arthur GuitermanI didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.
Charlize TheronHe who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Votes: 3 Martin Luther King, Jr.
I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised. Votes: 3 Abraham Joshua Heschel
Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be. Votes: 1 Alton Brown
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. Votes: 2 Rutherford B. Hayes
Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. Votes: 1 Laurell K. Hamilton
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies. Votes: 3 Alan Dean Foster
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. Votes: 6 Friedrich Nietzsche
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. Votes: 1 Charles Baudelaire
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. Votes: 1 Hannah More
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. Votes: 2 Jerry Garcia
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. Votes: 3 Edith Hamilton
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. Votes: 1 Wilhelm von Humboldt
I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation. Votes: 1 Victor Salva
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Votes: 1 Giacomo Leopardi
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. Votes: 1 George Eliot
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. Votes: 1 Franz Kafka
Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions. Votes: 3 Charles Spurgeon
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. Votes: 3 Luc de Clapiers
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation. Votes: 1 Kevin DeYoung
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. Votes: 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. Votes: 4 Bob Riley
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. Votes: 1 Giacomo Casanova
There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me. Votes: 4 Fede Alvarez
Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts. Votes: 1 Bill James
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. Votes: 4 George Santayana
When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars, His fame, who led the stormy van Of battle, well may cease; But never that which crowns the man Whose victory was peace. Votes: 3 John Greenleaf Whittier
The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be. Votes: 2 Mark Bittman
You can best fight any existing evil from the inside. Votes: 1 Hattie McDaniel
The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. This anti-life, anti-movement function of the terminal point is the fascinum, and it is precisely one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly. Votes: 2 Jacques Lacan
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated. Votes: 1 Nathaniel Philbrick
I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius. Votes: 3 Adam Savage
The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them. Votes: 1 Leon Bridges
If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives. Votes: 3 Moby
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. Votes: 1 Milan Kundera
You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way. Votes: 1 Tim Burton
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws. Votes: 3 Martin Luther King, Jr.
People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil. Votes: 3 Bertie Carvel
If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect. Votes: 2 David Davis
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. Votes: 1 Marcus Tullius Cicero
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils. Votes: 2 John Morley
A lot of people don't believe there's evil. If there's good in this world, then you're being intellectually dishonest, if you believe there's a good power, you've also got to believe there's an evil power, too. There are physical laws that are in place. Votes: 4 Si Robertson
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. Votes: 1 Anatole France
So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all. Votes: 4 Patrick Ness
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. Votes: 2 Helen Keller
I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily. Votes: 4 Kelly Hu
You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil. Votes: 1 Louis Farrakhan
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. Votes: 1 Gilbert Parker
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. Votes: 4 James Anthony Froude
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. Votes: 3 Thomas Jefferson
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil. Votes: 1 William Gibson
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things. Votes: 4 David Ogilvy
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. Votes: 1 Eric Butterworth
The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers. Votes: 1 Klaus Schulze
Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular. Votes: 3 Alveda King
Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind. Votes: 4 Johnny Ramistella
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. Votes: 3 Winston Churchill
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth. Votes: 1 Hans Bender
Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley Votes: 5 Alex Garland
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth. Votes: 4 Hans Bender
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. Votes: 2 Isaiah Berlin
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. Votes: 1 Margaret Walker
We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world. Votes: 1 Abdallah II of Jordan
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things. Votes: 1 Adam Hamilton
Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again. Votes: 3 Eduardo Galeano
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. Votes: 4 Marcus Aurelius
As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more responsible for our choices in a world where people "call evil good, and good evil." We do not choose wisely if we use our agency in opposition to God's will or to priesthood counsel. Tomorrow's blessings and opportunities depend on the choices we make today. Votes: 2 James E. Faust
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme. Votes: 6 Salman Khan
Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both. Votes: 3 Alexander Skarsgard
Not good vs evil. Only good vs evil is inside of you Votes: 4 Mindy Sterling
Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter. Votes: 3 Desmond Tutu
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. Votes: 2 Charles Simmons
People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all. Votes: 1 Joy Page
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government. Votes: 2 Doris Lessing
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. Votes: 7 Blaise Pascal
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. Votes: 3 Xun Zi
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils. Votes: 1 Aeschylus
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. Votes: 3 W. Somerset Maugham
To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles. Votes: 1 John Nelson Darby
Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse. Votes: 1 Philip Zimbardo
I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact. Votes: 4 Noam Chomsky
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. Votes: 1 Blaise Pascal
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. Votes: 1 Mahatma Gandhi
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive. Votes: 2 Lee Strobel
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. Votes: 1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual. Votes: 6 James St. James
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. Votes: 5 F. H. Bradley
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. Votes: 4 Citium Zeno
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come. Votes: 2 Maria Weston Chapman
To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles. Votes: 1 John Nelson Darby
Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action. Votes: 1 Pope Francis
It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good. Votes: 3 Pope Francis
People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good. Votes: 1 Sebastian Horsley
I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it. Votes: 3 Joel Osteen
In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ. Votes: 3 Kenneth Scott Latourette
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? Votes: 3 William Temple
I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn't looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake--similar to Kerrick. Votes: 2 Maria V. Snyder
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves. Votes: 3 Honore de Balzac
Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity Votes: 3 John Nelson Darby
The people who whine about Fox News are hypocrites - they say they're totally tolerant, but when they run into someone who doesn't share their assumptions, they say, 'Fox News is evil, and it must be stopped.' Votes: 1 Greg Gutfeld
I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem. Votes: 1 Martha Plimpton
Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing. Votes: 1 Nicolas Cage
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. Votes: 1 Robert Anton Wilson
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties. Votes: 4 Oscar Wilde
Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone. Votes: 1 Denise Mina
The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism. Votes: 1 John Bradshaw
I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil. Votes: 3 C. S. Lewis
I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions. Votes: 3 Lois Tilton
Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death. Votes: 3 Ernest Becker
I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define. Votes: 4 Madeleine Albright