Evils Quotes

490 quotes by 339 authors

It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests. — Gautama Buddha
to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found… — Edmund Randolph
Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and… — Plato
All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would… — Maimonides
Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since… — Muhammad Iqbal
A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically… — Saul Alinsky
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. — William James
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices — Paul Valery
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with… — Richard Hofstadter
We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times. — Pope Pius X
The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our… — Pope Leo XIII
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is… — Abraham Lincoln
Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which we now fear,… — John J. Crittenden
There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results… — Benjamin Tucker
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like… — John Maynard Keynes
Holiness is the sum of a million little things â€” the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of… — Kevin DeYoung
The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame,… — Unknown Author
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. — Enoch Powell
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war. — Michael Ignatieff

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