Evil Quotes

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Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good. — Wallace Stevens
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. — John Maynard Keynes
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. — Benjamin Haydon
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense… — Joseph de Maistre
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each… — Joseph Addison
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result… — Edward Dahlberg
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the… — James Madison
The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always… — Thomas Jefferson
To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature… — Alexis de Tocqueville
That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy… — James Madison
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery… — John Ruskin
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps,… — Victor Hugo
The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to… — Albert Camus
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. — John Ruskin
An evil life is a kind of death. — Unknown Author
In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to… — Karl Marx
Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave… — James A. Baldwin
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from… — Armstrong Williams
The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we… — William DeWitt Hyde

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