Evil Quotes

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

Mind, Friend, May

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

Live, Place, Dangerous

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Good, Power

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Against, Involved, Protesting

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Good, Men, Nothing

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Truth, Reality

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
George Washington

Good, Place, Honor

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Hate, Dark

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein

Good, God, Rewards

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha

Mind, Enemy, Him

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

Best, Government, State

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

Good, Above, Prove

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
Buddha

Good, Fear, Feeling

The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain

Money, Lack, Root

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare

Good, Men, After

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates

Words, Soul, Themselves

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Swami Vivekananda

Good, Money, Help

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark Twain

Work, Necessary, Avoided

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Violence, Object

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Body, Tyranny

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus Christ

Love, Good, Rain

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Give, Enough

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi

Children, Soul, Seen

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau

Thousand, Hacking, Striking

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Nature, Human

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mahatma Gandhi

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Mahatma Gandhi

Wrong, Needed, Capital

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Give, Enough

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
George Carlin

May, Confused, Become

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
Scott Alexander

Good, Hard, Cheating

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