Evil Quotes

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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves… — Walter Raleigh
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is… — Simone Weil
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen,… — Hippocrates
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the… — Judith Lewis Herman
I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms,… — Thomas Huxley
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on… — Dean Koontz
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. — Roy Hattersley
Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind… — Mercedes Lackey
The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but… — Ben Okri
Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs. — John Foster Dulles
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. — Jean Genet
If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's… — Edward Abbey
How can I be so evil? It ain't easy. — Edward Abbey
The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of… — Thomas Jefferson
The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power. — Friedrich August von Hayek
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other. — Thomas Jefferson
It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I… — Thomas Jefferson
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment. — Thomas Jefferson
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to… — George Washington
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other… — Patrick Henry
It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. — Thomas Paine
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in… — Thomas Paine
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then… — Terry Pratchett
Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side, — Kurt Vonnegut

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