Evil Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about evil.

Mateo Alemán

Mateo Alemán

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Those whom good deeds do not benefit and tender words do not move, are tamed by harsh and rigorous punishment.

W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

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Evil is commonplace and always human, and it sleeps in our bed and eats at our table.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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The bad thing about pretending to be good is that it's terrible.

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

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For evil to triumph, it is only necessary for good people to do nothing.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Are you a demon? I am a man. And therefore I have within me all the demons.

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

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Evil is not something superhuman, it is something less than human.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The better one is, the more difficult it is to suspect the wickedness of others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The memory of the bad past is cheerful.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

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He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

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The number of wrongdoers does not authorize the crime.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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The pride of those who cannot build is to destroy.

Euripides of Salamis

Euripides of Salamis

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Virtue causes more jealousy in evil than vice.