Evil Quotes

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) English man of letters, explorer.

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist.

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

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) English novelist.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ ve never tried before.

Mae West (1892-1980) American film actress.

But evil is wrought by want to thought as well as want of Heart!.

Thomas Hood (1799-1845) English Poet.

Evil is in antagonism with the entire creation.

Zschokke.

If we rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find it lies much in comparison.

Locke.

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

Rousseau.

By the very constitution of our nature, moral evil is its own curse.

Chalmers.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Coleridge.

There is this good in real evils, they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

Colton.

Even in evil, that dark cloud that hangs over creation, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see, in suffering and temptation, proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.

Channing.

To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

Bovee.

All physical evils are so many beacon lights to warn us from vice.

Bowen.

The existence of evil, as Whitely well says, is the great theological difficulty; and the apparent want of success of good men in overcoming it, is but one branch of this difficulty.

Bristed.

The first lesson of history, is, that evil is good.

Emerosn.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from, it, and with this I begin and end.

John Newton.

Good has but one enemy, the evil; but the evil has two enemies, the good and itself.

J.Von Muller.

Evil is but the shadow, that, in this world, always accompanies good. You may have a world without shadow, but it will be a world without light a mere dim, twilight world. If you would deepen the intensity of the light, you must be content to bring into deeper blackness and more distinct and definite outline, the shade that accompanies it.

F.W. Robertson.

He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.

Harge.

There is nothing truly evil, but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

Sir P. Sidney.

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example pf good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Pascal.

If we could annihilate evil we should annihilate hope, and hope is the avenues of faith.

Bulwer.

Imaginary evils soon become real by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

Swit.