This looks real bad. Some proverbs and quotes about evil.
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Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Tryon EdwardsHe told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Fellowship of the Ring
About Tom Bombadil
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William ShakespeareI believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H.L. MenckenI will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
Quoted: Gandalf
It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity.
(unknown author)Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
The Rolling StonesLet's drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
Source: Salt of the Earth Lyrics
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
William GoldingMany ideological beliefs, in addition to being evil, are patently ludicrous — ideas that no sane person would ever countenance on his or her own.
Steven PinkerMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise PascalMoney
So they say
Is the root of all evil today
Roger WatersSo they say
Is the root of all evil today
Source: Pink Floyd lyrics
Money is the root of all evil.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
François de La RochefoucauldNot all tears are an evil.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Not far away were dreary hills, rising higher and higher, dark with trees. On some of them were old castles with an evil look, as if they had been built by wicked people.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
Near the trolls.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham GreeneSubstantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
William Howard TaftThe real tragedy is not the conflict of good with evil but of good with good; that means a problem with no solution.
Dorothy L. SayersSource: Gaudy Night
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard DawkinsThere is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Quoted: You know who
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny YoungmanWhere Basil grows, no evil goes!
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