Evil Quotes & Sayings
These evil quotes and evil sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection.Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. Evil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme. (The Road Less Travelled) - Dr. Morgan Scott Peck
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [La., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum induerunt] - Quintilian [Marcus Fabius Quintilian]
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. - Saint Augustine of Hippo
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. - Lucretius [Titus Luretius Carus]
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg
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. - Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. - Max Born
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. - Jean Paul Richter
Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity. - Cornelius Tacitus