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Evil Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- 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…
- Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no…
- They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and…
- The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.
- I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence…
- Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally…
- Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
- And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If…
- Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of…
- WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.…
- They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had…
- Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized…
- Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.
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
- 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 generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- 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
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- 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 extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur