Quotes About Evil

Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.

How could a society produce such masters and such monsters?

What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.

I am haunted by the clear knowledge that, in the end, evil always triumphs.

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

In time of war the devil makes more room in hell.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.