Evil Quotes
5920 quotes by 2914 authors
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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
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
— Hannah Arendt
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
— Aristotle
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
— Aristotle
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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
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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
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
— Mackenzie Astin
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
— Saint Augustine
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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
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— Saint Augustine
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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
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
— Saint Augustine
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
— Saint Augustine
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
— Marcus Aurelius
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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
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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
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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
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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