Evils Quotes
490 Evils quotes by 339 unique authors
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In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
— Sophocles
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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind.…
— Ayn Rand
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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as…
— Criss Jami
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I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader…
— Grant Morrison
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You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel nourishment for the…
— Propertius
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Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government…
— Richard Mentor Johnson
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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks
— C.S. Lewis
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To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of…
— John Nelson Darby
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I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.
— Chen Guangcheng
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Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.
— Stevie Wonder
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May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.
— Jimi Hendrix
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The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.
— Martin Luther
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Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.
— James Meade
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Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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