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Evil Quotes by George Eliot
- Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
- One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
- There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil…
- No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
- That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part…
- Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had…
- We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our…
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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