Evil Quotes

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The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail. — Hyman Rickover
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be… — Joseph Brodsky
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two. — John Cheever
Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift. — Homer
I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the… — Isak Dinesen
It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we… — Maximilian Kolbe
In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives… — Bertrand Russell
In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men. — Mary Renault
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. — Max Lerner
Only lies and evil come from letting people off. — Iris Murdoch
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron
One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim… — H. L. Mencken
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we… — Robert E. Lee
Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if… — Virginia C. Andrews
Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whether it's the Axis of Evil, or the evils of eating meat, it is a concept that has all but lost the impact it once… — Corey Taylor
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly… — William O. Douglas
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,… — Thomas Jefferson

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