More quotations tagged with “evil”
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
—Evelyn Underhill
I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
—Euripides
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
—Edmund Burke
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
—Blaise Pascal
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
—Ayn Rand