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Evil Quotes by William Faulkner
- We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.
- People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is…
- Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect…
- Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that…
- A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He…
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- 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