Edmund Spenser Quotes

Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.

The most wicked thing that the dark side of human nature has ever come up with.

He that does evil hates the light.

I shall not die, but live, and declare the evil deeds of the friars.

Nobody sets out to be evil. They're insecure, and they make bad decisions.

Evil is evil, and it doesn't discriminate by dress. Some evil people in the headlines wear designer suits and wing-tipped shoes.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At Abu Ghraib, one photo shows two soldiers smiling before a pyramid of naked prisoners while a dozen other soldiers stand around watching passively. If you observe such abuses and don't say, "This is wrong! Stop it!" you give tacit approval to continue. You are part of the silent majority that makes evil deeds more acceptable.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.