Evil Quotes

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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.

- Louisa May Alcott

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

- Aristotle

What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about "right" and "wrong," or "good" and "evil," and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?

- Sam Harris

He 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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

- Margaret Mead

And Joy is Everywhere;

It is in the Earth's green covering of grass;
In the blue serenity of the Sky;
In the reckless exuberance of Spring;
In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;

- Rabindranath Tagore

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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

- Eric Hoffer

Is god willing to prevent evil but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god?

- Epicurus

Wickedness sucks in the greater part of its own venom, and poisons itself therewith.

- Michel de Montaigne

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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;
With them forgive yourself.

- William Shakespeare

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

- Aldous Huxley

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

- Rene Descartes

We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

- Mairead Maguire

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

- A. J. Muste

In seeking to avoid evil, [humanity] is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is [our] ingenuity, rather than [our] animal nature, that has given [our] fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.

- Ernest Becker

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.

- Epicurus

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

- Henry David Thoreau

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.

- Pascal

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Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

- Blaise Pascal

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

- Joseph Conrad

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To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

- Paul Ricoeur