Evils Quotes
490 Evils quotes by 339 unique authors
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They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively.…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends…
— Saint Basil
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As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a…
— William Osler
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated…
— Saint Basil
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It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are…
— John Dewey
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The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.
— H. L. Mencken
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Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who…
— Henri Nouwen
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Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils,…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the…
— Izaak Walton
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
— Jerry Garcia
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert…
— Baltasar Gracian
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In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet…
— Dick Gregory
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In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral…
— Alan Dershowitz
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I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.
— Howard Dean
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