List of Famous Evil Quotes in English with Images

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

- Evil Quotes by Ayn Rand

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good.  So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

- Leigh Hunt Quotes

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead.  Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

- Evelyn Underhill Quotes

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

-Joseph Conrad Quotes

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

- Blaise Pascal Quotes

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

- Hesiod Quote

Evil brings men together.

- Evil Quotes by Aristotle

Evil brings men together.

- Evil Quotes by Aristotle Download or Share

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

- Evil Quotes by Ayn Rand

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

- Evil Quotes by Ayn Rand Download or Share

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

- Evil Quote by Blaise Pascal

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

- Evil Quote by Blaise Pascal Download or Share

We must as second best… take the least of the evils.

- Second Best Evil Quotes by Aristotle Download or Share

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

- Evil Quotes by Edmund Burke Download or Share

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

-Hesiod Quotes

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

- Gloria Steinem Quotes

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

- Hesiod Quote

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

- Homer Quotes

Evil to him who evil thinks.
(Honi Soit Qui Pense)

- King Edward the Third Quotes

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

- Ovid Quotes

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

- Mae West Quotes

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

-Mary Renault Quotes

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

- Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

- Plato Quotes

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

- Simone Weil Quotes

The end excuses any evil.

- Sophocles Quotes

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

- Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

- Thomas a Kempis Quotes

The evil that we know is best.

- Titus Maccius Plautus Quotes

I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

- Euripides Quotes