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Evil Quotes by Confucius
- The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let…
- When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
- If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.
- Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be…
- Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.
- The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do…
- To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
- Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
- Return good for good; return evil with justice.
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