Evil Man Quotes

• No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Happiness, Mistake, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, Cosimo, Inc.

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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• The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Wisdom, Men

  1599 Antony. Julius Caesar, act 3, sc.2, l.74-86.

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• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Sad, Religious

  Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

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  The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Men, Evil People

  Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 4 (1911)

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• The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

  Hesiod

  Men, Evil People, Doe

  Works and Days l. 265

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Learning, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.63, New Directions Publishing

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• No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Men, Evil

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love You, Men, Yield

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

  Edmund Burke

  Honesty, Integrity, War

  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) See Edmund Burke 28; Mill 18

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• For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Men, History, Evil

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• Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Evil, Principles

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

  Antisthenes

  Weed, War, Men

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• I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Believe, Men, Evil

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• “Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Song, Men, Evil

  "Twilight of the Idols".

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• Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Believe, Reality, Men

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

  Dennis Prager

  Men, Essence, Life And Death

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• Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sadness, Reality, Men

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• A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Shoes, Evil

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publications,Inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 83”, p.97, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.

  Zane Grey

  Hate, Grief, Fighting

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• The Lord has told me that the last generation before His final coming will consist of His choicest children since the creation of the earth. But you will face a world filled with much pain and evil. Men...will gain great power over God's children. Youth such as yourselves will have a great responsibility to build up a pure and undefiled people in the midst of all this pain.

  Chris Heimerdinger

  Children, Pain, Responsibility

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• War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

  Rudyard Kipling

  War, Men, Evil

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• 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.

  William Saroyan

  Pain, Mean, Men

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• Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Men, Practice

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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