Evil Quotes

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. (Plato)
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. View quote
Hesiod
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. View quote
Joseph Conrad
An evil person is like a piece of coal: if it doesn't burn, it blackens you. View quote
Anacharsis
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. View quote
Hesiod
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. View quote
Socrates
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. View quote
Menander
Repentance for one's evil deeds is the safeguard of life. View quote
Democritus
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. View quote
Pythagoras
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. View quote
Socrates
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one. (Euripides)
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. View quote
Lucretius
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil. View quote
Aeschylus
No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. View quote
Zeno of Citium
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. View quote
Xun Zi
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil. View quote
Antisthenes
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. View quote
Aristotle
Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. (George Orwell)
Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. View quote
Henry Fielding
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
To be innocent is to be not guilty But to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. View quote
William Penn
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. View quote
Chester A. Arthur
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