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Evil Quotes by Thomas Paine
- It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.
- The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in…
- Government is a necessary evil
- It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.
- The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.
- One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty…
- Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
- A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
- Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
- Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have…
- Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable…
- Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city…
- Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable…
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