Evil Quotes

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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. — Herodotus
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too… — Mahatma Gandhi
Lack of money is the root of all evil. — George Bernard Shaw
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these… — Buddha
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable… — Thomas Paine
On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends. — John Gay
The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did… — William Temple
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. — Scott Alexander
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. — Unknown Author
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you. — Phaedrus
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Plato
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. — Pythagoras
Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God. — B R Hayden
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil. — Arnold J. Toynbee
Keep what you have; the known evil is best. — Plautus
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is… — Socrates
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and… — Joyce Cary
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. — Charles Baudelaire
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
To do no evil is good, to intend none better. — Claudius

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