Evil Quotes

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Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak… — Khalil Gibran
We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it… — Eric Hoffer
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. — Thomas Carlyle
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy… — Thomas Carlyle
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of… — Walter Lippmann
Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish… — Thomas Huxley
D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became… — Philip Pullman
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction… — Nikola Tesla
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the… — Bernard Baruch
The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge… — Enrico Fermi
The human race has reached a turning point. Man has opened the secrets of nature and mastered new powers. If he uses them wisely, he… — Harry S. Truman
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but… — Dennis Gabor
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. — Ambrose
We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm"… — Sheldon Lee Glashow
Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils… — Benjamin Rush
It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million… — G. H. Hardy
Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it. — Andrew Carnegie
Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake. — Ruhollah Khomeini

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