...the evils against which we contend are frequently the…

There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may…

— Martin Seligman

Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country - be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia.

— Patrisse Cullors

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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