Evil Quotes

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in… — Georges Bataille
Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more. — Nicolas Chamfort
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping… — William James
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. — Luc de Clapiers
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves… — Walter Raleigh
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is… — Simone Weil
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen,… — Hippocrates
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the… — Judith Lewis Herman
I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms,… — Thomas Huxley
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on… — Dean Koontz
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. — Roy Hattersley
Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind… — Mercedes Lackey
The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but… — Ben Okri
Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs. — John Foster Dulles
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. — Jean Genet
If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's… — Edward Abbey
How can I be so evil? It ain't easy. — Edward Abbey
The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of… — Thomas Jefferson

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