3,115 Quotes About Evil

The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.

You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride.

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.