evil quotes

No, the quotes themselves are not evil at all; they are actually pretty well-behaved in the company of good quote-loving people who pay them attention. See for yourself. 


“Gossip is the Devil's radio.”

— George Harrison

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”

— Aristotle

“Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.”

— Plato

“Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.”

— Plato

“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”

— Plato

“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”

— Plato

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”

— Plato

“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”

— Plato

“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”

— Plato

“Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good”

— Plato

“

 The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

”

— Socrates

“Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.”

— Martin Luther King

“If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.”

— Woody Allen

“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”

— Aristotle

“No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.”

— Aristotle

“When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.
”

— Lao Tzu

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”

— Marie Curie

“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”

— Henny Youngman

“Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.”

— Agatha Christie

“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.”

— Andre Gide

“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. ”

— Sigmund Freud

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”

— Buddha

“It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”

— Buddha

“When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.”

— Buddha

“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”

— Buddha

“I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful. I'm sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.”

— Euripides

“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero