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Evil Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would…
- Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope…
- No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a…
- A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to…
- The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
- Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather…
- The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;…
- We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling 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