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Evil Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these…
- From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The…
- It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
- Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
- Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
- Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil.…
- Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life…
- Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but…
- There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
- Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when…
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- 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