Evil Quote by Alexander Pope Download Open image “Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.” — Alexander Pope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evil Pleasure Understood Wrong or right
Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in His creation. — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
Good and evil. Right and wrong.Those are two fundamental opposing concepts that define the nature of humankind. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon Copy Share Image
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
