Quotes on Evil Man

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate _x000D_ an unjust status quo, _x000D_ good men must seek to bring into being _x000D_ a real order of justice.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice.

Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.