Evil Quotes

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It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual. — William James
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. — Seneca the Elder
More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all. — Lars von Trier
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to… — Robert Farrar Capon
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity… — Bertrand Russell
We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. — Hannah More
It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which… — Elizabeth Blackwell
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils. — Nathanael Emmons
The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any. — Stuart Wilde
Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root,… — Leigh Hunt
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make… — George Orwell
The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence. — Alan Cohen
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. — William S. Burroughs
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured… — Gerard De Nerval
For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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