Evil Quotes
5920 quotes by 2751 authors
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The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long.…
— Richard Rodriguez
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For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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...every day we should stand in awe of Him, as He is with us, and do what is pleasing before Him. If we are unable…
— Gregory Palamas
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The Lord Buddha was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of His teaching in one verse. He replied: Cease to do…
— Arthur E. Powell
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What am I doing on a level of consciousness where this is real? That is the first question to ask yourself when you become aware…
— Thaddeus Golas
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This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are no longer ours but Christ's;…
— Martin Luther
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False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because…
— Cesare Beccaria
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There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth.…
— Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
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Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one…
— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
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If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or…
— Swami Vivekananda
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This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to…
— Spotted Tail
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great…
— Tecumseh
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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into…
— Eric Hoffer
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
— Samuel Johnson
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