Evil Quotes
5920 quotes by 2751 authors
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Neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life,…
— William Wordsworth
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Each soul which believes it is its own eternal evil will eternally seek its good, but the great paradox is that in order to find…
— Sorin Cerin
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A tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil
— Chuck Palahniuk
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A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom
— Bible
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The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil (Proverbs 19:23).
— Bible
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I cannot account for the existence of evil by any rational method. To want to do so is to be co-equal with God.I know that…
— Mohandas Gandhi
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By chasing away the Evil in us we will also chase away the Good. This is mans paradox, to search himself without ever fully finding…
— Sorin Cerin
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And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree…
— Bible
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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to…
— Albert Schweitzer
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How could such an absurd and unfair society that torments with self alienation the human being, already completely alienated be still saved? How could a…
— Sorin Cerin
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The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way…
— Susan Sontag
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The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection... But this is the real question we ought to…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The divine nature of this world involves for the human being the pure, absolute nature, the plenitude state of this world, because this is what…
— Sorin Cerin
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An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend…
— Buddha
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set…
— John Locke
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It is too simple to say 'man is basically good' or 'man is basically evil'. The correct way would be to say 'man can become…
— Abraham Maslow
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An evil man is trapped by his sinful talk, but a righteous man escapes trouble
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Marriage, if truth be told (of this be sure), An evil is - but one we must endure
— Menander Of Athens
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All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal…
— Alexander Pope
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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to…
— Henry Miller
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