Evils Quotes
490 quotes by 339 authors
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There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth.…
— Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
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If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy…
— Charles Brockden Brown
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All evils are equal when they are extreme.
— Pierre Corneille
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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
— Max Lerner
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I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we…
— Robert E. Lee
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Whether it's the Axis of Evil, or the evils of eating meat, it is a concept that has all but lost the impact it once…
— Corey Taylor
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Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life,…
— Patrick Henry
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Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond…
— Cal Thomas
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It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
— George Washington
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils…
— Howard Zinn
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The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
— Elbridge Gerry
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One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .…
— Charles Dickens
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There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals…
— Milton Friedman
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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge…
— Teresa of Avila
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This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character…
— Orson Pratt
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