Evils Quotes

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. — George Bernard Shaw
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not… — George Bernard Shaw
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by… — Baron d'Holbach
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is… — Epicurus
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear… — Epictetus
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases. — Epictetus
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these… — Charles Caleb Colton
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both. — Bertrand Russell
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. — Walter Savage Landor
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. — H. L. Mencken
We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils. — Nathanael Emmons
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make… — George Orwell
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. — John Hay
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying… — Samuel Johnson
Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of… — Seneca the Younger
So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the… — Charles Dickens

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