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Best Evil Quotes by Ayn Rand
- So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
- Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
- Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's…
- A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
- There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be 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. So…
- So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a…
- It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels…
- Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with-…
- We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned…
- There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.
- The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and…
- The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who…
- In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil…
- Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let us forget their…
- When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty…
- We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for…
- When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose…
- You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil,…
- Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness,…
- ""Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If…
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