Evil Quotes

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A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him… — John of Kronstadt
By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human… — Frederick William Robertson
That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith… — Dennis Kucinich
Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that… — Vincent Van Gogh
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; -from fear of its being abused. — Samuel Johnson
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. — Samuel Johnson
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. — Mary Wollstonecraft
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror… — Tacitus
Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history. — Albert Camus
One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the… — John Taylor Gatto
The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source. — John D. Rockefeller
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right… — Neville Chamberlain
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means… — Georges Bizet
We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only… — Mairead Corrigan
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine… — Andrea Dworkin
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense;… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. — Carl Sandburg
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it… — Martin Luther
But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. — John Milton
In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might… — Samuel Johnson
If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but… — Ralph Barton Perry
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… — Leo Tolstoy
Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore… — Epicurus

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