Evil Quotes

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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally… — Louis D. Brandeis
Thinking evil is making evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies… — Alistair Cooke
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. — Thomas Jefferson
This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human… — Tony Blair
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm,… — Albert Schweitzer
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him. — Ben Jonson
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. — George Bernard Shaw
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not… — George Bernard Shaw
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. — Winston Churchill
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest… — Mother Teresa
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of… — Khalil Gibran
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by… — Baron d'Holbach
War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface. — Mahatma Gandhi
I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts… — Ken Kesey
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is… — Epicurus
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear… — Epictetus
The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies. — Seneca the Younger
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana

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