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Evil Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen
- When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with…
- Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons...…
- All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is…
- We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds.…
- A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.
- Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being…
- We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds.…
- Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few…
- The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness.…
- The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time…
- America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error,…
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