Evil Sayings & Quotes
These evil sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl. - Francis Thompson
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses. - Samuel Johnson
The devil's voice is sweet to hear. - Stephen Edwin King
In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who are no subjugated. - Leo Tolstoy
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies. - Homer
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. - Mark Twain
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions. Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long. [The Old Regime and the French Revolution] - Alexis De Tocqueville
The want of money is the root of all evil. - Samuel Butler
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. - Marcus Porcius Cato
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. - Amy Lowell
And enjoin prayer on your followers, and steadily adhere to it; We do not ask you for subsistence; We do give you subsistence, and the (good) end is for guarding (against evil). [Ta Ha 20.132] - The Koran
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. - Marquis De Vauvenargues
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. - Stephen Edwin King
And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. - Hesiod
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. - Martin Luther
It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage. - Vincent Van Gogh
Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil. - Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
A church debt is the devil's salary. - Henry Ward Beecher
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. - Epictetus
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. - Thomas Jefferson
A man's discontent is his worst evil. - George Herbert
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. - John Stuart Mill