Cases Quote by James Payn

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

— Daniel Defoe

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

— Samuel Johnson

“Money is not the root of all evil. Poverty of the mind is.”

— John Joclebs Bassey

You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a…

— Reverend Ike

The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

— Ayn Rand

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

— Anonymous

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come to pass,…

— Semir Zeki

“Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.”

— Melissa McPhail

“The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.”

— Leon Bloy

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because…

— Milos Forman

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

— Martin Luther King, Jr