Evil Quotes

Do not accept an evil you can change.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge malevolence from his soul.[Un des plus rudes labeurs du juste, c’est de s’extraire continuellement de l’âme une malveillance difficilement épuisable.]

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied; thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Maffia.[William Niles Rumfoord]

No one is born evil, just like no one is born alone. They become that way, through choice and circumstance.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.[À tous maux il est deux remèdes : le temps et le silence.]

Choosing to be this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can he good for any of us unless it is good for all.[Choisir d’être ceci ou cela, c’est affirmer en même temps la valeur de ce que nous choisissons, car nous ne pouvons jamais choisir le mal; ce que nous choisissons, c’est toujours le bien, et rieû ne peut être bon pour nous sans l’être pour tous.]

What is evil? – Whatever springs from weakness.[Was ist schlecht? – Alles, was aus der Schwäche stammt.]

Was a struggle to choose one’s own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil?

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.