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Evil Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody…
- Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
- The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When…
- The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high…
- Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
- Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
- Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
- I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
- Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
- In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten…
- Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
- Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal…
- Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in…
- ...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like…
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