evil quotes

• The snake stood up for evil in the Garden. (Robert Frost) [snake/evil/garden]
• I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect. (William Blake) [care/evil/care/fool]
• Active Evil is better than Passive Good. (William Blake) [evil]
• By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. (Winston Churchill) [evil/words/stomach]
• We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar. (William James) [evil/stroke/virtue]
• There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. ( Socrates) [knowledge/evil/ignorance]
• What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. (Hannah Arendt) [integrity/crime/evil]
• 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) [men/fear/evil/punishment]
• No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. ( Aristotle) [evil]
• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. (Wystan Auden) [evil/human]
• The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. (Jean Baudrillard) [equilibrium/evil]
• The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. (Henry Ward Beecher) [influence/evil]
• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke) [thing/evil/men]
• And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. (Edmund Burke) [government/willpower/evil/government]
• The want of money is the root of all evil. (Samuel Butler) [money/evil]
• Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. (Samuel Butler) [evil/water]
• To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. (Albert Camus) [society/evil/society/right]
• The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all -- he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly. (Albert Camus) [find//evil/value]
• Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. (Albert Camus) [virtue/reality/evil]
• May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.- (George Carlin) [evil]
• Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. (Thomas Carlyle) [men/evil/thing/]
• All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone. (Thomas Carlyle) [evil/evil]
• For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. (Joyce Cary) [life/mind/evil/spirit]
• For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. (Joyce Cary) [evil/spirit/creation/change]
• Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. (Miguel De Cervantes) [gifts/evil]
• Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [evil/leisure/disease]
• No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good. (Marcus Cicero) [pain/evil/life/pleasure]
• Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling. (William Cobbett) [evil/desire/desire/thing]
• The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad) [source/evil/men]
• The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. (Aleister Crowley) [evil]
• To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection. () [more/evil]

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