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Evil Quotes by Mark Twain
- Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil
- Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock…
- Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.
- The lack of money is the root of all evil.
- Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
- The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one;…
- It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get…
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
- 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 generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- 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
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- 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