Real Evil Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real…
— Granville Hicks
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Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Nowadays, hoy en dÃa, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a world of domination,…
— Denise Chavez
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in…
— Seneca the Younger
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There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for…
— Edward Rutledge
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You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Perhaps this is the only real evil left.
— Anne Rice
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Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of…
— Samuel Johnson
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Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is…
— Kirk Hammett
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History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse…
— Charles Trevelyan
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
— Voltaire
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
— Simone Weil
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And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or…
— Anne Rice
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It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real…
— Amelie Nothomb
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We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as…
— Alice Hoffman
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Kira is evil ... There's no denying that ... But lately I've been starting to think of it more like this ... The real evil…
— Tsugumi Ohba
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The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
— John Boyd Orr
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Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much…
— Angelina Jolie
Who Wrote These Real Evil Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Real Evil Quotes as follows: