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The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil.
-Arabic Proverb
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Speak of the Devil and he appears.
-Italian Proverb
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
-Proverb
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Speak the truth and shame the devil.
-Proverb
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By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome
-Proverb
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The love of evil is the root of all money.
-Proverb
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Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.
-Proverb
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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.
-Hannah Arendt
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There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.
-Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
-Aristotle
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
-W. H. Auden
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I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
-W. H. Auden
1-Sep-39
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
-Marcus Aurelius
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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
Bacon was referring to Jesus
-Francis Bacon
The Advancement of Learning, bk. 2, ch. 21, sct. 9, 1605
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...He made no complaint whatsoever about the bad reputation he had attracted throughout the world, assured me that he himself was the person most concerned by the destruction of superstition, and admitted to me that as far as his own power was concerned he had been afraid on only one occasion, which was when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than his colleagues, shout out from the pulpit: 'Dearly beloved, never forget, when you hear anyone vaunt the progress of enlightenment, that the Devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist!'
-Charles Baudelaire
The Generous Gambler short story, published February 7, 1864
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
-Charles Baudelaire
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist
-Charles Baudelaire
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There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
-Francis Beaumont
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
-Saul Bellow
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
-John Berger
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Overcome evil with good. St. Paul
-Bible
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No evil shall happen to the just.
-Bible
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Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.
-Bible
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Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. Ecclesiasticus
-Bible
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
-Josh Billings
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Books about Evil
