EVIL

Related Subjects: Adversity, Baseness, Crime, Devil, Goodness, Malevolence, Mischief, Misfortune, Sin and Sinners, Villainy, Wickedness

1. Evil and good are God's right hand and left.—PHILIP J. BAILEY, Festus
   

2. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.—Bible, Isaiah 5:20

3. For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.—Bible, Romans 7:19
   

4. Recompense to no man evil for evil.—Bible, Romans 12:17
   

5. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.—Bible, Romans 12:21
   

6. There is nothing that is evil except because a man has not mastery over it; and there is no good thing that is not evil' if it have a mastery over a man.—EDWARD CARPENTER, Towards Democracy
   

7. When God sends us evil, He sends with it the weapon to conquer it.—PAUL V. CARROLL, Shadow and Substance
   

8. The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.—JOSEPH CONRAD, Under Western Eyes
   

9. Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.—HESIOD, Works and Days
   

10. For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another.—HESIOD, Works and Days
    

11. But evil is wrought by want of thought,
    As well as want of heart.—THOMAS Hoop, The Lady's Dream
    

12. Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.—THOMAS A KEMPIS, Of the Imitation of Christ
    

13. And out of good still to find means of evil.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

14. More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd
    To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days,
    On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

15. He that helpeth the evil hurteth the good.—Proverb
    

16. A bad thing never dies.—Proverb
    

17. Who would do ill ne'er wants occasion.—Proverb
    

18. He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

19. God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.—ROUSSEAU, Emile, or Education
    

20. Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.—SHAKESPEARE, The Comedy of Errors
    

21. The evil that men do lives after them,
    The good is oft interred with their bones.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

22. No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.—SOCRATES
    

23. Evil perpetually tends to disappear.—HERBERT SPENCER, The Evanescence of Evil
    

24. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.—THOREAU, Walden
    

25. No evil deed live on.—E. F. WARE, The Palindrome
    

26. Perish with him the folly that seeks through evil good.—WHITTIER, Brown of Ossawatomie