Evil Quotes
5920 quotes by 2874 authors
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It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.
— William H. Hastie
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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all…
— Anna Quindlen
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The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right…
— Tecumseh
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
— Desmond Tutu
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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.
— Alice Walker
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Cocaine is like really evil coffee.
— Courtney Love
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Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something…
— Margaret Meagher
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When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects…
— John D. Rockefeller
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint,…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Evil lurks where disappointment lodges...
— George Foreman
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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
— Andrew Jackson
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In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.
— Sun Tzu
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent…
— J. William Fulbright
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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom…
— Antonio Gramsci
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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an…
— Archibald Alexander
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Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be…
— Stephen Neill
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
— Alfred de Vigny
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If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil
— Edward Joseph Young
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