3,115 Quotes About Evil

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.