3,115 Quotes About Evil

We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

The evil you do to others you may expect in return.