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Evil Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty…
- In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into…
- Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.
- The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,…
- Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human…
- When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a…
- Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is…
- The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
- Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
- It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
- It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are…
- No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it…
More Evil Quotes
- 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
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila