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Evil Quotes by Tacitus
- The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear…
- Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will…
- This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror…
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