3,115 Quotes About Evil

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.