Greatest Evil Quotes

36 quotes by 29 authors

The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
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
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
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
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
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
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul. — Arthur Bryant
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
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
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. — William Hazlitt
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
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
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
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
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
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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

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