Evil Quotes

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. Thomas Paine
Government Best Blessing Evil Stage Every Society State Intolerable Worst Even Necessary Necessary Evil
I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person. Dolly Parton
Positive You Negative Evil Think Complete Complete Person I Think Battery I Feel Part Feel Sin Like Got Person Order
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. Bertrand Russell
Good Good And Evil World Achieve Evil Own Medium Those Distorting Seek More Only Through Facts Know Likely Than Forget View Who Desires
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. Blaise Pascal
Fault Illusion Evil Add Further Faults Recognize Voluntary Since Greater Greater Evil Unwilling Still Truly Them Full
I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God. Ellen G. White
God Speak Word Evil Seen Dreadful Ministers Exalt Faces Voice Lift Never Praise Praising Against Flattering Warning Your
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. James Monroe
Government Best Evil Sum Prevent Most Likely Greatest Form Which
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. Jim Morrison
Evil Always Infatuation Violence
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Freedom You Surrender Suffering Defiance Evil Face Ought Our Cringe Evils Tell Shall Real Any Which Them Things
Right and wrong are not relative terms. There are fundamental truths. Evil flourishes, but good men continue to battle it - and win. Mike Gallagher
Good Battle Win Evil Men Relative Good Men Wrong Terms Continue Truths Fundamental Right Right And Wrong Flourishes
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Government Good Wise Will Evil Men Thoughtlessness Only Make Itself Decay Vices Necessary Necessary Evil
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
Evil Despairing Boredom Oneself Refusal Root
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. Andre Maurois
Game Soul Age Too Late Old Evil Finished Wrinkles Hair Feeling Stage Old Age White Too Late Weakening Indifference Rising More Generations True Than Far Body Belongs
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. Benjamin Banneker
Hope Good Communication Evil Corrupts Manners Live Good Manners Corrects Bad Bad Manners Hear
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. Carl Jung
Darkness Evil Understanding Definite Comprehensible Does Cure Inasmuch Help Cope
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. Carl Jung
Evil Own Others Our Something Fact Because Becomes Denied Hearts Cannot Wickedness
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. Charles Trevelyan
Character Selfish People Evil Moral Moral Evil Physical Contend Real Famine Which Turbulent Perverse
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. Christopher Dawson
Good Fight Evil Men Destroy Out Indistinguishable Soon Becomes Permitted Decide Then Means Set
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. Douglas MacArthur
Home Evil Power Blindly Rally Monstrous Has-Been Some Terrible Always Foreign Been Up Did Going Behind Us
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. Eric Hoffer
Evil Men Power Our Ears Penetrating About Seems Remarkable Idea Fellow Fellow Men Attuned Opinion How How Much Pinch Malice Reports Wonderfully Much Enhances
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' Immanuel Kant
War Will Evil Philosophers Bad More Said Praise Begets Greek Than Forgetting Mankind Who Even
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it? Johann Kaspar Lavater
You Yourself Speak Evil Telling Someone Know Am Ask Certain Why
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. Lao Tzu
Myself Good Evil Spirits Concern Nor Gods Any Either Serve
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. Lois Tilton
Nature People Evil Eye Of The Beholder Understanding Own Creation Eye Vampire Bad Bad Guy Guy Merely Like Blood Questions Beholder Interest Really Who Sucks Lives Save
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. M. Scott Peck
Good History Change Soul Heart Good And Evil Humble Battle Mind Evil Lost Depend Solitary Individual Between Course Waged Ultimately Won May Human Human History Whole Even
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. Maximilien Robespierre
Good People Evil Magistrate Suppose Institution Does Any Which
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. Peace Pilgrim
Love Truth Good Peace Overcome Evil Hatred Way Falsehood
Load more quotes

No more evil quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025