Evil Quotes
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Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for…
— Georges Bataille
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No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Upon the whole I doubt whether the Benefits of opposition to the Constitution opposition to the Constitution will not ultimately be productive of more good…
— George Washington
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So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man…
— Ayn Rand
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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more…
— Ronald Reagan
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It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.
— David Farland
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It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a…
— James Madison
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The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea,…
— James Madison
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the…
— James Madison
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