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Evil Quotes by Voltaire
- Let us confess it: evil strides the world.
- Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
- I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
- Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
- So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of…
- The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin…
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
- 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