Greatest Evil Quotes
36 quotes by 29 authors
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
— Saint Augustine
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest…
— Mother Teresa
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A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind…
— Rikki Ducornet
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The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.
— Patrick McGoohan
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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
— Luc de Clapiers
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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
— Plato
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To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does…
— Socrates
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Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.
— Arthur Bryant
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For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one…
— Socrates
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I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to…
— Socrates
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
— William Hazlitt
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The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality…
— Dennis Prager
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Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is…
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" "Is that including, or not including…
— Anthony Horowitz
Who Wrote These Greatest Evil Quotes
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