The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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.
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.
No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
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.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.
We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.
Evil man make me kill you.
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