We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves…

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror that men will not speak against it. That men have just…

— Cormac McCarthy

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

— John James Audubon

The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.

— Erik Naggum

“Hope is the worst of evils because it protracts torment.” “Your”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“So then, according to Jesus, the ‘evils’ which we think, say and do are not due primarily to our environment, nor are they bad…

— John R.W. Stott

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

— Ludwig von Mises

Of your philosophy you makeno use If you give place to accidental evils.

— William Shakespeare

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

— Saul Bellow

Imaginary evils are incurable.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

— Bertrand Russell

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing,…

— Maimonides