Top 26 For Evil To Succeed Quotes
#1. Let's revise the old adage for our times. All that it requires for evil to succeed is that enough lazy, stupid bastards believe everything they're told.
Karen Traviss
#2. All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
#3. Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.
Marshall McLuhan
#4. When a country goes to war, it acts like a sociopath. It sends people like me out in the woods to do the most evil things we can think of, but everybody else pretends like they're on the side of the angels. The reality is, if the angels want to win, it takes the devil to succeed.
Jon Roberts
#5. There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense.
Frederick Lenz
#6. There's two wolves battling us all right now ... One's good, the other one is evil. If you're wondering which wolf inside will succeed, simple it's the one that you feed ...
Ronnie Radke
#7. You succeed because you're willing to give everything to your craft- everything!
Shannon Hale
#9. Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.
Narendra Modi
#10. We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him.
Frederick William Faber
#11. Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.
Robin Hobb
#12. I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.
Jo Nesbo
#13. Evil knows its time to end is soon at hand, hence why it is more than determined to succeed.
Milkweed L. Augustine
#14. The fact that we see something as evil may not necessarily make that thing evil. Evil cannot contest good; succeed and persist
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#15. It's said on my world that the only thing evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing." - Will Bradshaw
Arthur Daigle
#16. Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy constantly. Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing from outside.
David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.
#17. We can't remain silent on gender rights and personal freedoms.
Maajid Nawaz
#18. Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.
Amity Gaige
#19. For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.
Joseph Heller
#20. Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.
C.S. Lewis
#21. Evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms
James Weldon Johnson
#22. There is no such thing as coincidence, Topper. It is always, always your enemies conspiring against you. (from How to Succeed in Evil)
Patrick E. McLean
#23. It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.
Jose Rizal
#24. An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.
Ludwig Von Mises
#25. Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.
Bram Cohen
#26. Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - from the prison of vanity and youur own looks - and sets you free to embrace the soul within.
Soman Chainani