Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
—Blaise Pascal
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
—Edmund Burke
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
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
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
—Gloria Steinem
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
—Hesiod
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
—Hesiod
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod
Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
—Homer
A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
—John Stuart Mill
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
—Joseph Conrad
Evil to him who evil thinks.
(Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)
—King Edward the Third
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
—Leigh Hunt
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
—Mary Renault