Evil Quotes

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Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you — Kendrick Lamar
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. — Confucius
Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil,… — Elie Wiesel
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. — Lydia M. Child
The sun also shines on the wicked. — Seneca the Elder
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. — Bob Riley
All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of… — Frederic Bastiat
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. — John Hay
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. — George Bernard Shaw
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying… — Samuel Johnson
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar… — Samuel Johnson
In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the… — Robertson Davies
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. — John Calvin
I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions… — Ravi Zacharias
Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness… — Samuel Johnson
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. — Antonio Porchia
Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of… — Seneca the Younger
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression. — Alexander Berkman

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