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Evil Quotes by William Penn
- To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
- God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
- Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to…
- To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
- Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
- If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
- A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
- A good end sanctify evil means; not must we ever do evil, that good might come of it. We are ready to retaliate, rather than…
- To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals.
More Evil Quotes
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- 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