Evil Quotes

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We are all born marked for evil. — Charles Baudelaire
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is… — Jean Baudrillard
Art is an attempt to integrate evil. — Simone de Beauvoir
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in… — Joseph Addison
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive. — William Bernbach
A church debt is the devil's salary. — Henry Ward Beecher
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. — Henry Ward Beecher
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing… — Robert Benchley
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore,… — Hans Bender
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil,… — Pope Benedict XVI
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. — Jeremy Bentham
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by… — Isaiah Berlin
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end. — Annie Besant
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise… — Annie Besant
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what… — Annie Besant
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less… — Annie Besant
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. — William Beveridge
The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out… — Jeff Bezos
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. — Ambrose Bierce

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