Good and evil are not independent but depended on each other. As soon as a man defined good, evil is habitually defined being the opposite of good. If we define love as good, hatred is automatically known as evil. If life is good, then death is evil. The list is endless as everything in this world now stands divided into either good or evil. Nothing exists in this world that does not fall into either of the two categories. Every person who tries to make his world filled only with goodness cannot survive just like no atom can survive if all electrons are removed from its orbit. These quotes on evil will make you understand the meaning of evil better.
35 Quotes On Evil
- “A wisp of evil can lure the vulnerable into a miasma of wickedness.” Michael Shaw
- “All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.” SOPHOCLES
- “Between two evils, I always like to take the one I’ve never tried before.” MAE WEST
- “Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.” Ayn Rand
- “Evil and good are God’s right hand and left.” Horace Mann
- “Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” Ronald Reagan
- “Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.” H. Auden
- “For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.” Simon Wiesenthal
- “Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.” Saint Thomas Aquinas
- “Gossip is the Devil’s radio.” George Harrison
- “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.” Martin Luther King Jr.
- “If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.” Epicurus
- “Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.” R. R. TOLKIEN
- “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.” George Carlin
- “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” Blaise Pascal
- “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” Mary Wollstonecraft
- “No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.” Aristotle
- “No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.” SIGMUND FREUD
- “Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.” Charles Kingsley
- “People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us… It’s people who claim that they’re good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.” Gregory Maguire
- “So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?” Ayn Rand
- “Someone asked him if it would be possible to hide evil from the gods. He said, “Not even in your thoughts.” Thales of Miletus
- “The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- “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 world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein
- “The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” Albert Camus
- “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
- “There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.” Friedrich Nietzsche
- “There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Those who understand evil pardon it.” George Bernard Shaw
- “Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” Haile Selassie
- “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it—always.” Mahatma Gandhi
- “Where there is no respect for life, there you will find evil.” R. Melling
- The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.” Saint Augustine
