Evil Quotes

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I believe that dogma is often evil. — Pat Buckley
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being… — Joseph Butler
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. — Menander
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them. — Jean Anouilh
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. — Simone Weil
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. — Frances Wright
Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself. — George A. Smith
Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years. — Unknown Author
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. — Menander
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking… — Robert Cecil
Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it. — Victor Hugo
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics;… — Jorge Luis Borges
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. — Plato
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner. — Hesiod
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. — Sophocles
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil. — Unknown Author
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much… — Plato
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. — John Cheever
We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet. — Pat Roberts
There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer. — Robert Staughton Lynd
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse;… — Moses
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who… — Jesus Christ
I understand the protests, but not the shooting and the attempts to bring down the state. We cannot allow hatred to control our lives. We… — Boris Trajkovski
Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded… — Jon Meacham

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