Evil People Quotes

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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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

Peace, Integrity, Patriotic

"The Harper Book of Quotations Revised Edition". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993.

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Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Support, Chiefs, People

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The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.

Michael Gruber

Problem, Worst, Curse

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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, Religion

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

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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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Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

Terry Pratchett

Fantasy, Good Omens, Treats

"I Shall Wear Midnight". Book by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. 2010.

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The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

Albert Einstein

World, Threatened, People

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

Inspirational, Peace, Emo

"The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Thinking", 1978.

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Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

M. Scott Peck

Truth, Pain, Hate

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

Truth, Believe, Atrocities Committed

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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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That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.

Mira Grant

Crazy, Nice, Insanity

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You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots.

George R. R. Martin

Morning, Hero, Thinking

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Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason. He acts on instinct, like a stable animal, convinced he's doing good, that he's always right, and sanctimoniously proud to go around f***ing up ... anyone he perceives to be different from himself, be it because of skin color, creed, language, nationality, or ... leisure habits. What the world needs is more thoroughly evil people and fewer borderline pigheads.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Animal, Thinking, Skin Color

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For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

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They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do.

Donald Trump

Lying, Media, Presses

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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He who stops being better stops being good.

Oliver Cromwell

Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Writing

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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

God, Religious, Atheist

"Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

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Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Done, Good People, Knows

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I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

Stefan Molyneux

Integrity, Chips, Capacity

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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

Joseph Stalin

Inspirational, Believe, Humans

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The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Inspirational, Heart, Cutting

"The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1974.

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If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Wisdom, Peace, Fun

"The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.

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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Gautama Buddha

Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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