Quotes About Evil

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

How often the fear of one evil leads into a worse.

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman.

We may draw good outof evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Foul whisperings are abroad.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

The Devil's boots don't creak.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

The cunning livery of hell.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible.

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.

Right and wrong are not relative terms. There are fundamental truths. Evil flourishes, but good men continue to battle it - and win.