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Good and Evil QuotesFamous Good and Evil quotes by popular authors such as Plato, Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Burke, Erasmus, Rabindranath Tagore and others.
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[highlight-text]Of two evils choose the least.
Erasmus
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[highlight-text]The Devil's boots don't creak.
Scottish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Men are cruel but man is kind.
Rabindranath Tagore
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[highlight-text]Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Ignorance the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
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[highlight-text]Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]There is only one good knowledge and one evil ignorance.
Socrates
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[highlight-text]No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
Plato
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[highlight-text]Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.
Nachman of Bratslav
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[highlight-text]All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]It is a man's own mind not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
Siddhartha Buddha
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[highlight-text]It's better to be good than evil but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen King
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[highlight-text]The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely to grow into the likeness of bad men.
Plato
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[highlight-text]When choosing between two evils I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West
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[highlight-text]The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
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[highlight-text]There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]Life -- the way it really is -- is a battle not between bad and good but between bad and worse.
Joseph Brodsky
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[highlight-text]The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
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[highlight-text]When bad men combine the good must associate; else they will fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs and if no man objected and no man rebelled those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence S. Darrow
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[highlight-text]Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]When good men die their goodness does not perish but lives though they are gone. As for the bad all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]It's difficult in times like these: ideals dreams and cherished hopes rise within us only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe in spite of everything that people are truly good at heart.
Anne Frank