Evil Quotes

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In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil. — William Shakespeare
The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice. — William Hazlitt
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. — Henry David Thoreau
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to… — Samuel Johnson
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried. — Michel de Montaigne
Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the… — Theodore Dreiser
There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man. — W. Somerset Maugham
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice. — Robert Browning
Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them. — Jean Anouilh
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

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