Evil Quotes
5920 Evil quotes by 2751 unique authors
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The evil that we know is best.
— Plautus
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It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who…
— James Smithson
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If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could…
— David Davis
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There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting,…
— Thomas Foran
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Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.
— John Carpenter
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The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
— Max Born
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That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old…
— William Petty
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
— Auberon Herbert
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He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or…
— William Godwin
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He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
— Gilbert Parker
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There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
— Ellis Peters
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Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.
— David Wilmot
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Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
— Abu Bakr
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Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view…
— Mary Garden
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
— Bodhidharma
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Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil.…
— Richard Reeves
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I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.
— Jim McKay
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
— Origen
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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
— Caleb Cushing
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No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
— Martin Van Buren
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But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one…
— Patrick McGoohan
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I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil,…
— John Hanning Speke
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This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet…
— George Grey
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