Contempt Quote by George Herbert

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

— Roy Hattersley

“Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgements which people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be…

— Donald Robertson

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

— Joseph Addison

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

— Thomas Jefferson

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

— Bob Riley

“Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner…

— William James

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“First, people tolerate evil because they see some benefit to themselves,' he said. 'Then, they feed it in hope that it will turn into…

— Walter Dean Myers

There is no evil like hatred, and no fortitude like patience.

— Shantideva

“Evil is a confession of inadequacy”

— Stefan Molyneux