Evil Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evil Found Instinct Men One man Savages Wickedness
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“There are two things to be aware of if the fight against evil inclinations is to have any chance of success. First, our efforts… — Jacques Philippe Copy Share Image
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image