Evil Quotes

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some… — Saint Augustine
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
There is no possible source of evil except good. — Saint Augustine
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. — Marcus Aurelius
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth. — Teresa of Avila
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their… — Teresa of Avila
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As… — Teresa of Avila
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon

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