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QUOTES including the word: "evil"

Gauguin:
  • Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

    • Norman Mailer:
  • Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.

    • Socrates:
  • There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

    • Darwin:
  • It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

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

    • Hatim:
  • Do no evil; if you do, such shall you meet with.

    • Lautreamont:
  • 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.

    • Mary Shelley:
  • No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

    • Gracian:
  • Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

    • Menander:
  • Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

    • Marie Curie:
  • I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

    • Pittacus:
  • Forbear to speak evil not only of your friends, but also of your enemies

    • Wassily Kandinsky:
  • The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

    • Hawthorne:
  • Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

    • Pearl Buck:
  • When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

    • Jose Martí:
  • We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

    • Bataille:
  • The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

    • Wollstonecraft:
  • No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/mary-wollstonecraft-quotes

    • Stendhal:
  • Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

    • Strindberg:
  • Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

    • Ibsen:
  • The devil is compromise.

    • Petrarca:
  • To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

    • Karen Blixen:
  • I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

    • Hesiod:
  • Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

    • Henry Miller:
  • Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

    • Pascal:
  • Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction

    • Baudelaire:
  • Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

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

    • Freddie Mercury:
  • Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

    • Pythagoras:
  • There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

    • Epicurus:
  • If evil is spoken of you and it is true, correct yourself, if it is a lie, laugh at it.

    • Dostoevsky:
  • Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

    • Thomas Aquinas:
  • Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

    • Francis Bacon:
  • He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

    • Darwin:
  • What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

    • Aristophanes:
  • Evil events from evil causes spring.

    • W. Burroughs:
  • The face of evil is always the face of total need.

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