Quotes About Evil

We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us? The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him.

No man is capable of causing great evil without thinking he's doing the right thing.

Bad people live that they may eat and drink, whereas good people eat and drink that they may live.

Knowledge is the only virtue," because "Once a man knows good from evil, nothing on earth can compel him to act against that knowledge.

Pero no es difícil, varones, huir de la muerte; muy más difícil es huir de la maldad, que corre más veloz que la muerte. Yo ahora, por tardo y por viejo, seguramente, he sido cogido por lo más lento, mientras que mis acusadores, por hábiles y por vivos, han sido cogidos por lo más veloz: por la maldad

Ojalá Critón, que la mayoría fuera capaz de llevar a cabo los mayores males, con tal de que fuera capaz de realizar los mayores bienes, que entonces todo iría bellamente. Mas, por el contrario, de ninguna de las dos cosas son capaces, que no pueden hacer ni lo sensato ni lo insensato, sino tan solo lo que les salga a la ventura

Oh Lord,' inquired Isabella, 'what is this slavery, that it can do such dreadful things? what evil can it not do?' Well may she ask, for surely the evils it can and does do, daily and hourly, can never be summed up, till we can see them as they are recorded by him who writes no errors, and reckons without mistake.

Der Missbrauch der Sprache lässt Böses in die Seele

No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Vout was one of those people who believed in things like murder, and evil, and all forms of serious unpleasantness only when they did not affect him personally. Were he to read in a newspaper that a maniac had chopped five members of the same family into small pieces, he would not question it. Suggest to him, though, that a man he regarded as a friend might have been murdered, and you would never succeed in persuading him that it was possible.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil!This is why cities tumble and the great houses rain down,This is what scatters armies!

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Knowing the sin in this world's grandest depravity.

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

Because if you're out there not out of a love for justice, but rather, out of hate for your enemy, in no short time you will become the evil you thought you were fighting. Before you know it, the good guys will be the ones protesting you.

The evil one knows where to attack. He is going to attack the home. He is going to destroy the family. That's what he wants to do. . . . Let us make up our minds he will not do it in our families

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light." (John 3:19-20.)

The knowledge of evil is inadequate knowledge Ethics Book IV, proposition 64

Now, my evil sense of alienation is eliminated, since I have heard the Praises of the Lord with my ears.

Later, you will regret and repent - you fool! Why are you engrossed in evil-mindedness and skepticism?

Deliver me, O Lady, from all evil: and from the infernal enemy defend me. Against me he hath drawn his bow: and in his craftiness he hath laid snares for me. Restrain his evil power: and powerfully crush his craft. Turn back his iniquity on his own head: and let him speedily fall into the pit which he hath made. But we will rejoice in thy service: and we will glory in thy praise.