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No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.
— Daniel Defoe
Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?
— Pedro Calderon De La Barca
The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.
— Desiderius Erasmus
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
— Dante Alighieri
God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
— Mary Daly
... if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
— Clive Barker
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.
— Sebastian Horsley
I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
— Jordan B. Peterson
I soon learned to separate theological from moral prejudices, and I gave up looking for a supernatural origin of evil. A
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.
— Gen Urobuchi
The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.
— Eugene H. Peterson
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
— Baltasar Gracian
The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.
— Anthony Burgess
The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
— Roger L'Estrange
Money isn't the root of all evil; the love of money isn't the root of all evil; the NEED for money is the root of all evil.
— Dorothy Koomson
Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
— Brandon Sanderson
I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.
— Stana Katic
We are all born marked for evil.
— Charles Baudelaire
To help me to my grave. I asked for you to leave. Will you make me call my gaolers and have you dragged away, you vile, scheming, evil bitch?
— George R R Martin
But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.
— Cynthia Rylant
They prefer their meals alive and terrified, for fear is their favorite sauce.
— Donald G. Firesmith
The canter is a cure for every evil.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Beware; satan visits you by the noises of negatively minded people. Hear, but don't act on it!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Aren't you ashamed to work for these evil people, who arrest your brothers in faith for no reason than being Muslim?
— Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Because we see only what we already know. We project our own capacities - for good as well as evil - onto the other person.
— Jan-Philipp Sendker
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
— Alice Walker
Many people make devices that can be used for good or evil. You cannot blame the blacksmith when the swords he crafts are used to kill.
— Lindsay Buroker
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.
— Edward Dahlberg
Was it possible to have an apartment sprayed for evil spirits like one would for bugs, or set up traps like for those big, city rats?
— K.L. Burrell
Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.
— Timothy Keller
Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.
— Neil Gaiman
Meghann knew however strong the evil inside Simon Baldevar was, it was tempered by the love he had for her and their children.
— Trisha Baker
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.
— Thomas Chalmers
Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.
— William George Jordan
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
— Comte De Lautreamont
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men wouldmake the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights. — Julius Nyerere
To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.
— George Washington
Why do You thus devise
Evil against her?' 'For that
She is beautiful, delicate;
Therefore. — Adelaide Crapsey
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.
— Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
— Desmond Tutu
May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways
— Heraclitus
The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.
— Gustave De Molinari
If the slogan for Google is 'Don't be evil', then the slogan for Uber is 'Do a little bit of evil & don't get caught.'
— Peter Thiel
Your level is above the reach of the devil ... Keep it in mind; as long as you are in the light of God, you bind him (the devil) tight!
— Israelmore Ayivor
My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.
— Richard Dawkins
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
— Richard John Neuhaus
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?
— Leo Tolstoy
For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it's somebody's job and not yours.
— Israelmore Ayivor
War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.
— Hans F. Sennholz
We must substitute fear for faith, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
— Henry David Thoreau
Fear no evil," she whispered - just for me.
— Sarah J. Maas
A thing doesn't have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not evil or malicious.
— Frank Delaney
Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.
— Michel Houellebecq
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.
— Chester A. Arthur
If Saul could have had you for his David, the evil spirit would have been exorcised without the aid of the harp.
— Charlotte Bronte
I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.
— Big Joe Turner
The symptoms of madness can often be altered with medication, but there's no therapy for evil.
— Jonathan Kellerman
When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
— Ambrose Bierce
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
— Rosa Luxemburg
Evil is limited. One cannot formA scheme for universal evil. — Philip James Bailey
For the first time, he considered that utter indifference might inspire not inner peace but a limitless capacity for evil.
— Dean Koontz
A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.
— Alan Keyes
Hate will destroy you. Let love be the basis of which you live your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
James wrote, "Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am being tempted by God'; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone
— Erwin W. Lutzer
