Evil proverbs

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◆ 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 Maguire99

◆ Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

- Mae West99

◆ 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 Einstein99

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

- Edmund Burke99

◆ Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

- Baltasar Gracián99

◆ Man is the cruelest animal.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

- George Carlin99

◆ Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it's a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

- Jim Butcher99

◆ Well, that's an evil smile...

- James Patterson99

◆ Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

- Laurell K. Hamilton99

◆ If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn99

◆ Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

- Patrick Henry98

◆ If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

- Blaise Pascal98