quotations about evil
Shall the hag Evil die with the child of Good,
Or propagate again her loathèd kind,
Thronging the cells of the diseased mind,
Hateful with hanging cheeks, a withered brood,
Though hourly pastured on the salient blood?
ALFRED TENNYSON
Sonnet
A man that does nothing but watch evil, never will overcome it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Evils are the breathings of the unjust.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
An evil thought in a soul is like a water-rat swimming in a pond at evening: the rat destroys the iridescent reflection of heaven in the water.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
ROD SERLING
Los Angeles Times, 1967
If you speak not, you cannot speak evil.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Horace
The defenders of evil deeds deserve the same punishment as the doers.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims