The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.
Even an evil man can have principleshe can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Do I make you nervous, Madame Lambert?” “No. I just prefer to keep my distance.” “Evil isn’t contagious.” “I thought you said you weren’t the most evil man in the world?” “I’m not. But that doesn’t mean I’m a good man.” “I don’t think anyone would argue with that.
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