Evil Quotes

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Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil,… — Pope Benedict XVI
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. — Jeremy Bentham
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by… — Isaiah Berlin
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end. — Annie Besant
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise… — Annie Besant
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what… — Annie Besant
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less… — Annie Besant
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. — William Beveridge
The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out… — Jeff Bezos
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. — Ambrose Bierce
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest… — Tony Blair
Active Evil is better than Passive Good. — William Blake
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. — Aeschylus
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a… — Aeschylus
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a… — Aeschylus
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. — Aesop
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. — Michael Bloomberg
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? — Boethius
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. — Jorge Luis Borges
Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a… — Anthony Bourdain
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we… — Omar N. Bradley
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice… — Jacob Bronowski
Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be. — Alton Brown
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. — Pearl S. Buck
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those… — Pearl S. Buck

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