Good and Evil Quotes - Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository

Category: Good and Evil.

The repository contains 17 quotes in the category “Good and Evil.”

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Edmund Burke
1729 — 1797

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Albert Camus
1913 — 1960

He who chases monsters must see that he not become a monster himself.

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Ayn Rand
1905 — 1982

The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke
1729 — 1797

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato
427? — 348? B.C.

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you’re lucky to find one who’s hacking at the roots.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal
1623 — 1662

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.

Just because you cannot fight every evil does not mean you should fight no evils.

Evil is that which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but seldom a mistake.

H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956