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Evil Quotes by Simone Weil
- Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together;…
- At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in…
- 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…
- Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is…
- Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
- Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
- To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for…
- Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
- Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
More Evil Quotes
- 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
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila