Evil Quotes

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The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power. — Friedrich August von Hayek
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other. — Thomas Jefferson
It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I… — Thomas Jefferson
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. — Thomas Jefferson
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to… — George Washington
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other… — Patrick Henry
It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. — Thomas Paine
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in… — Thomas Paine
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then… — Terry Pratchett
Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side, — Kurt Vonnegut
There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with… — Arthur C. Clarke
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,… — Frederick Jackson Turner
In love there are two evils: war and peace. — Horace
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite… — James Madison
Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as… — Thomas Hutchinson
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. — Daniel Defoe
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil. — Henry Fielding
On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the… — Carl Jung
No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them,… — Sigmund Freud

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