Evil Quotes

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There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with… — Arthur C. Clarke
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,… — Frederick Jackson Turner
In love there are two evils: war and peace. — Horace
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite… — James Madison
Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as… — Thomas Hutchinson
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. — Daniel Defoe
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil. — Henry Fielding
On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the… — Carl Jung
No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them,… — Sigmund Freud
Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing… — William James
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own… — Max Horkheimer
So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the… — Karl Marx
This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never… — Hannah Arendt
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one. — Euripides
Evil events from evil causes spring. — Aristophanes
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. — Homer
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die. — Sappho
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils. — Aeschylus
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. — Mikhail Lermontov
Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine… — Thom Yorke
Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers — Thom Yorke
I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans. — Thom Yorke

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