Evil Quotes - Page 11

• Evil be to him who evil thinks.

  Edward II of England

  Thinking

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• When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know--an authority good for nothing.

  Augustus William Hare

  Hearing, Authority, Refrain

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.185

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• He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Forgiveness, Wise

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.64, Beacon Press

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• Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Money, Political, Politics

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.247, Courier Corporation

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• Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Evil People, Order

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• Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

  Matthew Fox

  Women, Angel, Healing

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• Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

  Eric Hoffer

  Trust, Beauty, Math

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Secret, Passionate, Wickedness

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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• I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Children, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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• Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Hate, War

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

  Aristotle

  Men, Hatred, Together

  "Fictional character: Jason Gideon". "Criminal Minds". Season 2, Episode 13: "No Way Out", January 17, 2007.

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• But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart!

  Thomas Hood

  Heart, Atheism, Want

  'The Lady's Dream'

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• We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sight, Example, Common

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.205

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• Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

  Benjamin Banneker

  Communication, Science, Manners

  Friends' Intelligencer, Volume XI (p. 821), 1854.

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• A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

  Thomas Paine

  Integrity, Ignorance, Character

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

  Anatole France

  Nature, Principles, Literature

  "The Revolt of the Angels".

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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, Giving

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

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• Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Roots, Bores You, Boredom

  "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, (p. 286), 2013.

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• By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Army, Rights

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.11, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Educational, Teaching

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Shadow, Substance

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• Still we love
  The evil we do, until we suffer it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Suffering, Stills

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper”, p.530

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• What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

  John Milton

  Christian, Vices, Bait

  John Milton (2016). “Areopagitica and Other Prose Works”, p.13, Courier Dover Publications

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• It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

  Mary Renault

  Friendship, Bitterness, Loses

  "The Praise Singer". Book by Mary Renault, 1978.

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• To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ears, World, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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