Evil Quotes

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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest… — Tony Blair
Active Evil is better than Passive Good. — William Blake
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. — Aeschylus
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a… — Aeschylus
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a… — Aeschylus
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. — Aesop
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. — Michael Bloomberg
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? — Boethius
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. — Jorge Luis Borges
Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a… — Anthony Bourdain
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we… — Omar N. Bradley
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice… — Jacob Bronowski
Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be. — Alton Brown
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. — Pearl S. Buck
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those… — Pearl S. Buck
I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less… — Madeleine Albright
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. — Edmund Burke
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without… — Edmund Burke
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. — Edmund Burke

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