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Evil Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds....
- Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby…
- They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.
- The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
- We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for…
- What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
- Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
- The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
- A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the…
- I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.
- For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
- Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never…
- The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of…
- Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
- The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
- The sun shines and warms and light us, and we do no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of…
- Sin seen from the thought, is a diminution or less: seen from the conscience or will, itis pravity or bad. The intellectnames it shade, absence…
More Evil Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine