Evil Quotes
5920 quotes by 2874 authors
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human…
— Anatole France
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
— Epictetus
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
— William Shakespeare
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
— August Strindberg
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The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which…
— Malcolm X
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils;…
— Bertrand Russell
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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for…
— Thornton T. Munger
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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
— Irwin Edman
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Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.
— Bertrand Russell
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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
— Walter Savage Landor
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For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one who loves you…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.
— Bertrand Russell
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The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise…
— John Calvin
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It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.
— Jose Rizal
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With the influences of evil that surround our children, can we even imagine sending them out in the morning without kneeling and humbly asking together…
— Neil L. Andersen
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As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more responsible for our choices in a world where people…
— James E. Faust
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Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel…
— Alan Cohen
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An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
— Jeff Cooper
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