Evil Quotes

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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. — Miguel de Cervantes
Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil... — Abraham Lincoln
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible. — Charles Sumner
It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me… — Stonewall Jackson
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply. — George W. Bush
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils. — Thucydides
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. — Seneca the Younger
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. — John Milton
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. — Lucretius
There is, to be sure, no evil without something good. — Pliny the Elder
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. — Henry Fielding
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains… — Miguel de Cervantes
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made… — Thomas a Kempis
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. — Thomas Browne
It's kind of good to get that evil monkey off my back! — Stefan Cherneski
Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country. — George Washington
A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. — Cunningham Geikie
To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection.… — Thomas Secker

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