Often An Entire City Has Suffered Because Of An Evil Man.
- Hesiod
Evil To Him Who Evil Thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)
- King Edward the Third
We Must As Second Best…Take The Least Of The Evils.
- Aristotle
Evil Deeds Do Not Prosper; The Slow Man Catches Up With The Swift.
- Homer
All That Is Necessary For The Triumph Of Evil Is That Good Men Do Nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Of Two Evils We Must Always Choose The Least.
- Thomas a Kempis
The Evil That We Know Is Best.
- Titus Maccius Plautus
Evil Brings Men Together.
Men Never Do Evil So Completely And Cheerfully As When They Do It From A Religious Conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
Do Not Seek Evil Gains; Evil Gains Are The Equivalent Of Disaster.
Between Two Evils, I Always Pick The One I Never Tried Before.
- Mae West
The Belief In A Supernatural Source Of Evil Is Not Necessary; Men Alone Are Quite Capable Of Every Wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad
A Scoundrel Will Forever Be A Scoundrel, No Matter Which Coat He Wears.
- Laura Moncur
No Man Is Justified In Doing Evil On The Ground Of Expediency.
- Theodore Roosevelt
All Things May Corrupt When Minds Are Prone To Evil.
- Ovid
Evil When We Are In Its Power Is Not Felt As Evil But As A Necessity, Or Even A Duty.
- Simone Weil
We Are All Capable Of Evil Thoughts, But Only Very Rarely Of Evil Deeds: We Can All Do Good Deeds, But Very Few Of Us Can Think Good Thoughts.
- Cesare Pavese
The End Excuses Any Evil.
- Sophocles
I Know Indeed What Evil I Intend To Do,But Stronger Than All My Afterthoughts Is My Fury,Fury That Brings Upon Mortals The Greatest Evils.
- Euripides
The Evil Of The World Is Made Possible By Nothing But The Sanction You Give It.
- Ayn Rand
Don’t Let Us Make Imaginary Evils, When You Know We Have So Many Real Ones To Encounter.
- Oliver Goldsmith
No Evil Can Happen To A Good Man, Either In Life Or After Death.
- Plato
Evil Is Obvious Only In Retrospect.
- Gloria Steinem
It Is Bitter To Lose A Friend To Evil, Before One Loses Him To Death.
- Mary Renault
I Have Discovered That All Human Evil Comes From This, Man’s Being Unable To Sit Still In A Room.
He Harms Himself Who Does Harm To Another, And The Evil Plan Is Most Harmful To The Planner.
Nothing Is Easier Than To Denounce The Evildoer; Nothing Is More Difficult Than To Understand Him.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Person May Cause Evil To Others Not Only By His Action But By His Inaction, And In Either Case He Is Justly Accountable To Them For The Injury.
- John Stuart Mill
Every Sweet Has Its Sour; Every Evil Its Good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Spread Of Evil Is The Symptom Of A Vacuum. Whenever Evil Wins, It Is Only By Default: By The Moral Failure Of Those Who Evade The Fact That There Can Be No Compromise On Basic Principles.
Evil Draws Men Together.
Every Minute You Are Thinking Of Evil, You Might Have Been Thinking Of Good Instead. Refuse To Pander To A Morbid Interest In Your Own Misdeeds. Pick Yourself Up, Be Sorry, Shake Yourself, And Go On Again.
- Evelyn Underhill
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