Evil Quotes

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The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and… — John Cheever
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics. — Bertrand Russell
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating.… — Jean Genet
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and… — St. Jerome
I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might… — John Ruskin
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. — Henry Ward Beecher
Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character. — Lord Acton
An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night,… — Noel Coward
Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil. — Samuel Johnson
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of… — James Russell Lowell
Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak… — Khalil Gibran
We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it… — Eric Hoffer
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. — Thomas Carlyle
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy… — Thomas Carlyle
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of… — Walter Lippmann
Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish… — Thomas Huxley
D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became… — Philip Pullman
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction… — Nikola Tesla
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the… — Bernard Baruch
The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge… — Enrico Fermi
The human race has reached a turning point. Man has opened the secrets of nature and mastered new powers. If he uses them wisely, he… — Harry S. Truman
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but… — Dennis Gabor
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. — Ambrose

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