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62 evil Quotes
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“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”
Steven Weinberg Quotes
“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.”
Mae West Quotes
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke Quotes
“Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.”
Mae West Quotes
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
“It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die”
Seneca Quotes
“Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.]”
Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus) Quotes
Source: Historia (XXX)
“Evil events from evil causes spring.”
Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus) Quotes
Source: Historia (XXX)
“Evil and good are God's right hand and left.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Prelude to Festus
“Evil beginning houres may end in good.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: The Knight of Malta (act II, sc. 5)
“Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?”
Bible Quotes
Source: Colossians (ch. II, v. 20-22)
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
Bible Quotes
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XV, v. 33)
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; they put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
Bible Quotes
Source: Isaiah (ch. V, v. 20)
“For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Romans (ch. VII, v. 19)
“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Romans (ch. XII, v. 21)
“Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.]”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
Source: L'Art Poetique (I, 64)
“From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.”
Book of Common Prayer Quotes
Source: Litany
“The world, the flesh, the devil.”
Book of Common Prayer Quotes
Source: Litany
“I have wrought great use out of evil tools.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes
Source: Richelieu (act III, sc. 1, l. 49)
“It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes
Source: Richelieu (act III, sc. 1, l. 49)
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes
Source: Richelieu (act III, sc. 1, l. 49)