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Evil Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
- Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake
- One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
- During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the…
- The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.
- I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
- A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
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- 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
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