Quotes about evil
evil done bitter
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!] Plautus
evil minimum
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]
evil rewards endure
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
evil
To do wrong is the greatest of evils. Plato
evil dishonorable
All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
evil desire good-and-evil
When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.
evil harmony virtue
Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.
evil praying lord
Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
evil rewards
There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
evil noble return
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
evil wicked turns
Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
evil soul world
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
evil heroism antidote
Heroism is the antidote to evil. Philip Zimbardo
evil lines good-and-evil
The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.
evil yang world
The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.
evil faces stay-true
Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength. Laini Taylor
evil long old-friends
I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends. Johnny Depp
evil citizens states
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil. John Stuart Mill
evil liberty would-be
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
evil
That which is evil is soon learned. John Ray
evil parent world
We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.
evil hell intense
Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points. James Joyce
evil next higher
From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature. James Russell Lowell
evil sides conflict
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
evil inward driven
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.
evil half astonishment
Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment. Laurence Sterne
evil interesting soul
I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul Kyle MacLachlan
evil deeds curse
This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil. Friedrich Schiller
evil doe culture
A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial. George Gilder
evil danger situation
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. Lucan
evil cures
Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure. Luc de Clapiers
evil our-actions goodness
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.
evil principal
Total evil. dang, his principal had been right all along... he really was demonspawn. Sherrilyn Kenyon