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Evil Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
- There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.
- All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.
- Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom…
- He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and…
- But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't…
- I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
- And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted…
- To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell…
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- 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
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- 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
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- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine