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Evil Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his…
- The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
- So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man…
- Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To…
- To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.
- Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no…
- Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and…
- An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good…
- The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
- Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.
- I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of…
- What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is…
- I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life…
- Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward…
- All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
- The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil,…
- You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last…
- Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates,…
- Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the…
- Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn…
- The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind.…
- When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There…
- Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality…
- There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
- Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
More Evil Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine